Long Live the Republic! - Blu-ray

From director Karel Kachyňa comes this landmark film that views the end of World War II through the eyes of twelve-year-old Olda, who witnesses the retreat of the German army and the arrival of Soviet liberation forces in rural Czechoslovakia in 1945. With this film, Kachyňa established his lyrical reputation—interweaving poetic and dreamlike images of the boy’s inner world of imagination with the harsh reality of the war’s final days, his cruel family environment, his rivalry with other boys, and the relentless reality that would arrive with the rise of Soviet power...