Sokolovo (film)

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Sokolovo
Russian film poster
Directed by	Otakar Vávra
Written by	Otakar Vávra Miloslav Fábera Nikolai Figurovsky
Starring	Ladislav Chudík Yury Solomin Martin Štěpánek Lev Ivanov Jiří Pleskot Hannjo Hasse Vladimír Ráž
Cinematography	Andrej Barla
Edited by	Antonín Zelenka
Music by	Zdeněk Liška
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1974 (1974)
Running time	128 minutes
Countries	Czechoslovakia USSR
Languages	Czech, Russian
Budget	28 Million KČs

Sokolovo (Russian title Соколово) is a 1974 Soviet–Czechoslovak war film made by Otakar Vávra depicting the Battle of Sokolovo in 1943. The film was published in two parts and was meant as the middle part of Vávra's "war trilogy" consisting of movies Days of Betrayal, Sokolovo and Liberation of Prague.

Plot

The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.

Cast

• Ladislav Chudík as Ludvík Svoboda
• Vladimir Samoilov as generálporučík
• Yury Solomin as general Shafarenko
• Bohumil Pastorek as Klement Gottwald
• Martin Štěpánek as npor. Otakar Jaroš
• Lev Ivanov as náměstek lidového komisaře
• Jiří Pleskot as Eduard Beneš
• Hanjo Hasse as Reinhard Heydrich
• Vladimír Ráž as Sergěj Ingr
• Josef Langmiler as Zdeněk Fierlinger
• Ladislav Hádl as Kopecký
• Ivan Ryzhov as pplk. Bilyutin
• Štefan Kvietik as Špígl
• Pavel Pípal as Opatrný
• Jiří Krampol as Karel Horák
• Jan Kanyza as Rataj
• Rudolf Jelínek as ppor.Antonín Sochor
• Ladislav Lakomý as Rediš
• Emil Horváth as Daniš
• Renáta Doleželová as Anka Kadlecová
• Yuriy Nazarov as npor. Filatov
• Vladimír Protasenko as por. Šironin

External links

• Sokolovo at IMDb
• Sokolovo (1974) on Czecho-Slovak Movie Database (Czech)