Cast
Iva Janžurová 
Jaromír Hanzlík Luděk Munzar 
Vladimír Ptáček Ivo Niederle Jiří Žák
Credits
Written by: 
Karel Kachyňa Jan Procházka
Music: Jan Novák
Plot
In 1945, a Czech woman whose husband was killed by Germans uses a German soldier to drive her coach to Vienna, to take revenge, and learns about hate and humanity.
Sinekatalog’s take
A spare, intense wartime chamber piece.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.7 / 10 (1,336 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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