Shadows of a Hot Summer
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Directed by	Frantisek Vlácil
Written by	Jiří Křižan
Starring	Juraj Kukura
Cinematography	Ivan Šlapeta
Music by	Zdeněk Liška
Production company	Barrandov Studios
Distributed by	Bontonfilm (2008)
Release date	September 1978
Running time	99 min
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

Shadows of a Hot Summer (Czech: Stíny horkého léta) is a 1978 Czechoslovak thriller film by František Vláčil. The film won a Crystal Globe award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1978.^[1]

Cast

• Juraj Kukura as Ondřej Baran
• Marta Vančurová as Tereza Baranová
• Gustáv Valach as Pavel Valchar
• Robert Lischke as Lukáš Baran
• Karel Chromík as Ukrainian Lieutenant
• Zdeněk Kutil as "Old"
• Jiří Bartoška as "White-haired"
• Augustín Kubán as "Bald"
• Gustav Opočenský as injured Ukrainian
• Ilja Prachař as Lieutenant Grygar
• Michal Ladižinský as Drunk

Plot

The film is set in the 1940s after the end of World War II. Ondřej Baran lives with his family in Beskydy, at a homestead in the mountains. One day five members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army come to their house. One of them is injured and the Ukrainians want to hide in the house until he recovers. They take the family as hostages and force Ondřej to bring a doctor to the house. They threaten Ondřej that if he appeals for help they will kill his family. Ondřej eventually realises that he has to deal with them by himself. He kills all the Ukrainians, but one of them shoots him and he dies. The film ends with Ondřej's funeral.

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