Jump into the dark

Movie
German title	Jump into the dark
Original title	Skok do tmy
Country of production	ČSSR
original language	Czech
Publishing year	1964
length	95 minutes
Rod
Director	Vladislav Delong
script	Vladislav Delong Otto Zelenka
music	Svatopluk Havelka
camera	Jan Kališ
cut	Antonín Zelenka
occupation
Martin Růžek : Štěpán Hradecký Jaroslav Mareš : Karel Vrána Radoslav Brzobohatý : Honza Václav Voska : Dr. Gruber Miroslav Macháček : Eda Hertl Marie Tomášová : Zdena Kalabová Vlastimil Hašek : Petr Vosecký Ivan Palec : Calab Lubomír Kostelka : patient Zdeněk Řehoř : Moučka Vladimír Hlavatý : bouncer Josef Větrovec : Malik

Leap into the Dark is a Czech film. It was shown for the first time in the German-speaking area on May 7, 1965 in GDR cinemas.

action

Three Czech communists are flown to their homeland with Soviet help in 1943. They should re-establish contact with comrades working underground. In doing so, they are exposed to persecution by the Gestapo and betrayal by acquaintances. One of the three, Honza, is arrested on a train, another, Stepan, finally becomes ill from wandering around in occupied Prague. So the last of the three, Karel, has to complete the "job" on his own.

comment

The Progress film program 42 (1965) with a text by Ben Nova appeared to support the film .

criticism

The lexicon of international film saw a “comparatively unpathetic and convincingly staged examination of the time of occupation and resistance”.

Web links

• Jump into the darkness in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annual film bibliographic report 1965. Berlin 1966, p. 173
2. ↑ leap into the dark. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 10, 2015 .