Cinema
A Path Across the Danube
Chodník cez Dunaj
Miloslav Luther · 1989
Synopsis
During the Second World War, after the birth of the Slovak State and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Slovak railwayman Viktor Lesa regularly brings the mail to Ludendorf station, the name imposed on the border town of Břeclav. On an impulse, he diverts an important consignment. When the Gestapo arrives in town, he flees with his Czech colleague František Ticháček, a Jewish post office employee, and the two young friends, accused of sabotage, are pushed by danger from one border to another.
Context
Vladimír Körner wrote the screenplay of this drama of the Occupation, and Roman Luknár, who had just finished his acting studies, plays his first major role in it, that of Viktor, opposite Vladimír Hajdu. In 1990 the film received the Monegasque Red Cross prize at the Monte-Carlo television festival. Digitally restored by the Slovenský filmový ústav, it is included in the collection of ten Slovak films on Blu-ray issued in 2016, during the Slovak presidency of the Council of the European Union, to make this cinema known abroad.
Who it is for
About an hour and a half, in Slovak; a drama of war and escape carried by the friendship of two young men.
Prizes and reception
The role that revealed the actor Luknár, and one of the Slovak films chosen to represent the country abroad.