Movie Comedy
Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black barons". Although it might seem like a political satire and it's mostly funny, it shows the reality and the absurdity of military service under the communist regime. Based on a novel by Miloslav Svandrlik.
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Ondřej Vetchý Pavel Landovský Bronislav Poloczek Alois Švehlík Jiří Schmitzer Miroslav Donutil Rudolf Hrušínský Daniel Landa Vladimír Javorský Boris Rösner Václav Postránecký Milan Šimáček Zdeněk Podhůrský Michal Dosedla Jan Kraus Jaromír Dulava Václav Vydra Michal Dlouhý Miroslav Táborský Josef Somr Josef Dvořák Milan Gunár
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