Connection
Divided We Fall is a tchèque film of genre Drama directed by Jan Hřebejk released in USA on 16 october 2000 with Bolek Polívka
Divided We Fall (2000)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listDivided We Fall (Czech: Musíme si pomáhat literally translated as We Must Help Each Other) is a 2000 Czech film directed by Jan Hřebejk. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Synopsis
The film opens in 1939 Czechoslovakia. Horst, a Czech-German Nazi collaborator married to a German woman and co-worker of Josef, brings food to the invalid Josef and his wife Marie, who are Czechs. Josef hates the Nazis. When Josef finds David, who had escaped a concentration camp in occupied Poland after first being sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in northern Bohemia, Josef and Marie decide to hide him in their apartment. Horst makes an unannounced visit, bringing presents as usual. Marie is ambivalent about their secret: On one hand she never misses an opportunity to blame her husband for bringing in the Jew, but on the other she is merciful and sympathetic with the poor kid locked in the closet day and night. She suggests that Josef accepts Horst's job offer evicting Czech Jews from their homes, so as to get more protection and deflect possible suspicions. Josef accepts and is considered a collaborator by the neighbor Franta (who had tried to give David over to the Nazi authorities, when he first escaped from a concentration camp). Marie spends the days learning French from David and getting more and more tender toward him. Horst's visits become more frequent, and one afternoon, he attempts to rape Marie.Actors
Bolek Polívka
(Josef Cízek)
Jiří Kodet
(Dr. Fischer-Rybáf)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Divided We Fall
There are 17 films with the same actors, 12 films with the same director, 86341 with the same cinematographic genres (including 215 with exactly the same 3 genres than Divided We Fall), 10121 films with the same themes (including 373 films with the same 3 themes than Divided We Fall), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Divided We Fall, you will probably like those similar films :
Pupendo (2003)
, 2hDirected by Jan Hřebejk
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Bolek Polívka, Eva Holubová, Zuzana Kronerová
Rating71%
Pupendo shows the difficulty of life in Czechoslovakia during the 1980s. Artist Bedřich Mára (Bolek Polivka) is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has a wife and two children. Life begins to change when art historian Alois Fábera (Jiři Pecha) begins working on a piece about Bedřich, leading to a job offer from a Party official. Things are looking up, until the wrong people hear portions of the historian's writing.
Cosy Dens (1999)
, 1h55Directed by Jan Hřebejk
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Miroslav Donutil, Emília Vášáryová, Jiří Kodet, Bolek Polívka, Stella Zázvorková, Kristýna Nováková
Rating80%
Pelíšky is a bittersweet coming-of-age story set in the months from Christmas 1967 leading up to the ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring. Teenager Michal Šebek (Michael Beran) has a crush on his upstairs neighbor, Jindřiška Krausová (Kristýna Nováková). Michal's family is headed by a stubborn army officer who is a firm supporter of the communist system and who believes that communist technology will eventually triumph over western imperialist capitalism, while Jindřiška's father is an ardent foe of the Communists and a war hero, who has been imprisoned several times because of his outspoken opposition to the regime; he believes that "the Bolsheviks have a year at most, maybe two". In contrast, the younger generation couldn't care less for politics. Instead, Michal sports a Beatles mop-top while Elien (Ondřej Brousek), the local hipster whose parents live in the USA, runs a local film group specialising in Hollywood and pre-war French films, while Jindřiška becomes Elien's girlfriend. After a wedding that unites the families, the film ends with the news breaking of the invasion of the Warsaw Pact.
I'm All Good (2008)
Directed by Jan Hřebejk
Genres Comedy
Actors Bolek Polívka, Jiří Schmitzer, Lenka Vlasáková
Rating63%
Train of Life (1998)
, 1h43Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes French war films, Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Transport films, La culture tzigane, Rail transport films, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Lionel Abelanski, Rufus, Agathe de La Fontaine, Michel Muller (humoriste), Clément Harari, Gad Elmaleh
Rating75%
The movie starts off with a man, named Schlomo (Lionel Abelanski), running crazily through a forest, with his voice playing in the background, saying that he has seen the horror of the Nazis in a nearby town, and he must tell the others. Once he gets into town, he informs the rabbi, and together they run through the town and once they have got enough people together, they hold a town meeting. At first, many of the men do not believe the horrors they are being told, and many criticize Schlomo, for he is the town lunatic, and who could possibly believe him? But the rabbi believes him, and then they try to tackle the problem of the coming terrors. Amidst the pondering and the arguing, Schlomo suggests that they build a train, so they can escape by deporting themselves. Some of their members pretend to be Nazis in order to ostensibly transport them to a concentration camp, when in reality, they are going to Palestine via Russia. Thus the Train of Life is born.
Jacob the Liar (1975)
, 1h36Directed by Frank Beyer
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Vlastimil Brodský, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen, Blanche Kommerell, Peter Sturm, Dezső Garas
Rating70%
In a Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland, a man named Jakob is summoned to the Gestapo office on a charge he broke the curfew. As the soldier who sent him there merely played a prank on him, he is released, but not before hearing a radio broadcast about the defeats of the German Army. As no one believes he went to the Gestapo and came out alive, Jakob makes up another tale, claiming he owns a radio – a crime punishable by death. He then starts encouraging his friends with false reports about the advance of the Red Army toward their ghetto. The residents, who are desperate and starved, find new hope in Jakob's stories. But it all ends as the Germans deport the people to their death in the extermination camps.
Seven Beauties (1975)
, 1h55Directed by Lina Wertmüller
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Roberto Herlitzka, Aldo Valletti, Massimo Vanni
Rating76%
The picaresque story follows its protagonist, Pasqualino (Giannini) who, as a dandy and small-time hood in Naples, to save the family honour, is sent to prison for killing a pimp (and then dissecting the victim and placing the body in suitcases) who had turned Pasqualino's sister into a prostitute. Convicted and sent to prison, Pasqualino succeeds in being transferred to a psychiatric ward. Desperate to get out, he volunteers for the Italian Army, but then somewhere in Germany he deserts with a comrade. They are captured and sent to a concentration camp. There, in a bid to save his own life, Pasqualino decides to survive by providing sexual favors to the obese and ugly female commandant (Stoler). His plan succeeds, except for the fact that he is then put in charge of the barracks as a kapo, and is obliged to select six men to be killed under the threat that if he doesn't do so, they will all be killed. Pasqualino ends up executing the soldier with whom he was captured and being responsible for the death of another fellow prisoner, a Spanish anarchist. At the war's end, upon his return to Naples, Pasqualino discovers that his seven sisters, his fiancée and even his mother have all survived through prostitution.
Conspiracy (2001)
, 1h36Directed by Frank Pierson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth, Ian McNeice, Kevin McNally, David Threlfall
Rating75%
A meeting is held in order to determine the method by which the Nazi government is to implement Adolf Hitler's policy — that the German sphere of influence should be free of Jews, including those in the occupied territories of Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Czechoslovakia and France. As the film opens, various officials from different German agencies arrive and mingle at a lakeside villa in Wannsee. Among those present:
Swing Kids (1993)
, 1h54Directed by Thomas Carter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Musical theatre, Historical, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Jazz films, Musical films, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Frank Whaley, Barbara Hershey, Kenneth Branagh, Tushka Bergen
Rating66%
In 1939 Hamburg, Peter Müller and Thomas Berger join their friends Arvid and Otto at a swing club called The Bismarck. They have a good time, dancing and enjoying the music.
Distant Journey (1949)
, 1h48Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Blanka Waleská, Zdeňka Baldová, Otomar Krejča, Eduard Kohout, Saša Rašilov, Ladislav Rychman
Rating72%
Hana, médecin juive, tombe amoureuse de Toník, un chrétien. Leur histoire d'amour tourne au cauchemar quand les autorités entreprennent d'exterminer les juifs. La famille d'Hana est déportée à Theresienstadt et leur amour devient une lutte pour la vie.
Fritz the Cat (1972)
, 1h18Directed by Ralph Bakshi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Erotic, Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about cats, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, Ralph Bakshi, Roger Carel, Serge Sauvion, Jacques Balutin
Rating61%
In a New York City park, hippies have gathered with guitars to sing protest songs. Fritz and his buddies show up in an attempt to meet girls. When a trio of attractive females walk by, Fritz and his friends exhaust themselves trying to get their attention, but find that the girls are more interested in the crow standing a few feet away. The girls attempt to flirt with the crow, making unintentionally condescending remarks about blacks, while Fritz looks on in annoyance. Suddenly, the crow rebukes the girls with a snide remark and walks away. Fritz invites the girls to "seek the truth," bringing them up to his friend's apartment, where a wild party is taking place. Since the other rooms are crowded, Fritz drags the girls into the bathroom and the four of them have group sex in the bathtub. Meanwhile, the police (portrayed as pigs) arrive to raid the party. As the two officers walk up the stairs, one of the partygoers finds Fritz and the girls in the bath tub. Several others jump in, pushing Fritz to the side where he takes solace in marijuana. The two officers break into the apartment, but find that it is empty because everyone has moved into the bathroom. Fritz takes refuge in the toilet when one of the pigs enters the bathroom and begins to beat up the partygoers. As the pig becomes exhausted, a very stoned Fritz jumps out, grabs the pig's gun, and shoots the toilet, causing the water main to break and flooding everybody out of the apartment. The pigs chase Fritz down the street into a synagogue. Fritz manages to escape when the congregation gets up to celebrate the United States' decision to send more weapons into Israel.