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Cuckoo in a Dark Forest
First aired on May 1, 1985
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Genres: Drama

Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.

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Miroslava Součková | Emilka Fejfarová
Oleg Tabakov | Otto Kukuck
Alicja Jachiewicz | Frida Kukuck
Míla Myslíková | Frau Kramer
Vilém Besser | Teacher
Rafał Wieczyński | Staszek
Featured Crew
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Antonín Moskalyk | Director
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Tadeusz Lampka | Production Manager
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Marcela Pittermannová | Creative Producer
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Helena Rohanová | First Assistant Director
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Andrzej Swat | First Assistant Director
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Markéta Jiroušková | Assistant Director