Hodina tance a lásky

Teenager Kristina Kleinburger, daughter of the commander of a concentration camp, arrives from bombed-out Berlin to visit her parents, whose life represents a world of harmony and peace for her. Her parents try to reinforce her illusions with ballet lessons, which are to be given by a former Hungarian prima ballerina. In a single day, contrary to the intentions and plans of her father, a typical German officer, Kristina's ideas and illusions about her parents' society and the security of home collapse, and the whole perversity and monstrosity of the German war and totalitarian mechanism emerges before her with tragic inexorability and the echo of the approaching end of the war. The story, setting, and characters of the film are fictional, only the tragedy of their fates is real.

Cast

Lucie Holánková Anna Ballontay

Ester Geislerová Kristina Kleinburger Roman Zach Wolfgang "Wolfi" Weissmüller Boris Rösner Karl Kleinburger Zlata Adamovská Gertruda Kleinburger Jan Novotný Grube Tomáš Valík Schumeister Zdena Studenková Monika Jan Vlasák Führinger Pavel Nový Kühne Zdeněk Dušek Hübner Jitka Ježková

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