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...a pátý jezdec je Strach

  • 1965
  • TV-MA
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
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...a pátý jezdec je Strach (1965)
DramaWar

A Jewish doctor in Nazi-occupied Prague risks his life by assisting a gravely injured member of the resistance.A Jewish doctor in Nazi-occupied Prague risks his life by assisting a gravely injured member of the resistance.A Jewish doctor in Nazi-occupied Prague risks his life by assisting a gravely injured member of the resistance.

  • Director
    • Zbynek Brynych
  • Writers
    • Milan Nejedlý
    • Hana Belohradska
    • Zbynek Brynych
  • Stars
    • Miroslav Machácek
    • Olga Scheinpflugová
    • Zdenka Procházková
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    690
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    • Director
      • Zbynek Brynych
    • Writers
      • Milan Nejedlý
      • Hana Belohradska
      • Zbynek Brynych
    • Stars
      • Miroslav Machácek
      • Olga Scheinpflugová
      • Zdenka Procházková
    • 12User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Miroslav Machácek
    Miroslav Machácek
    • docent Armin Braun
    Olga Scheinpflugová
    • Ucitelka hudby
    Zdenka Procházková
    Zdenka Procházková
    • Marta - manzelka Veselého
    Jirí Adamíra
    Jirí Adamíra
    • majitel domu JUDr. Karel Veselý l
    Josef Vinklár
    Josef Vinklár
    • velitel civilní obrany Vlastimil Fanta
    Ilja Prachar
    Ilja Prachar
    • rezník Sidlák
    Jana Pracharová
    Jana Pracharová
    • Vera - Sidlákova manzelka
    Jirí Vrstála
    Jirí Vrstála
    • Komisar
    Tomás Hádl
    • Honzik
    Eva Svobodová
    Eva Svobodová
    • domovnice Kratochvílová
    Jirí Pleskot
    Jirí Pleskot
    • Policista v civilu
    Milan Mach
    Milan Mach
    • Policista v civilu
    Mirko Musil
    Mirko Musil
    • Policista v civilu
    Roman Hemala
    Roman Hemala
    • Policista v civilu
    Slávka Budínová
    Slávka Budínová
    • Helena - Wienerova zena
    Cestmír Randa
    Cestmír Randa
    • MUDr. Emil Wiener
    Karel Novacek
    • postrelený odbojár Pánek
    Alexandra Myskova
    • Excentricka
    • Director
      • Zbynek Brynych
    • Writers
      • Milan Nejedlý
      • Hana Belohradska
      • Zbynek Brynych
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    7JuguAbraham

    Visually stunning and an unusual indirect presentation of the Nazi Holocaust

    Superlative camera angles for a Sixties film! Zbynek Brynych is one of the most important Czech directors after Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel and animator Jiri Trnka. The film is about the Nazi Holocaust while it is never openly stated in the film. The confiscated property of the Jews sent to concentration camps and a chimney emitting black smoke are the only close indirect indicators of the main subject. I couldn't spot the word Jews in the English subtitles. The visuals did show the Swastika in a casual manner on printed matter. The use of a young boy and the ominously empty streets are the highlights of the director's creativity. There are two different sequences of two different men on a bicycle--the differences speak volumes, even though the location is the same one. Varied reactions of the building's inhabitants, who knew each other, in the final sequence are amazingly well-captured by the director and his incredibly talented cinematographer Jan Kalis.
    8jordondave-28085

    Important film in Czechoslovakian history

    1968) ...And The Fifth Horseman Is Fear/ ...a pátý jezdec je Strach (In Czechoslovakia with English subtitles) WAR/ DRAMA

    Almost plot less where the film states the situation without telling a story, but it is still effective once the viewer hangs onto it about actual oppression and dictatorship felt by an once renowned ex-Jewish doctor, Dr. Braun(Miroslav Machácek) while living in the Nazi invaded town of Czechoslovakia. He eventually regains his identity once he was asked to perform surgery to save a stranger injured by a gun shot wound! Possesses the same emotions as "The Pawnbroker" starring Rod Steiger! If watched obliviously without reading the synopsis would make the first half hour hard to get into since it's rather plot less, and was able to tolerate it once I listened to the introduction told by Robert Osbourne of "Turner Classic Movies". Interesting note that the film had to be approved by gov't censors who at the time it was made would not approve the film at all, had they known it was about the Czech authorities working alongside with the Nazis!
    10honza-tesa

    unique performance of Miroslav Machacek

    Really great Czech film of the 60´s. I think the best picture by the director Zbynek Brynych. Armin Braun (performed by Miroslav Machacek) is a doctor of Jewish origin. In spite of the fact he could be killed by the Nazis and the whole block-of-flat with him, he is performing an operation of an injured revolter. While the operation is finished he has to find morphine to give it to the revolter because of big pains he has after the medical help.

    We can see the excellent performance of Miroslav Machacek in the monologue part (by the way which lasts 3 minutes!!) in which he is deciding to help or not to help. I can recommend this movie to everyone who likes great acting in a good story.
    didier-20

    this gem of a film..

    I spent one winter systematically going through each & every film in the London Czech Centre's Video library, & of all the films, I returned to this one time & again. It's a fantastic & bizarre film, where the state of despair that existed under communism is encoded in a strange blending of the past , the present & film

    noir.

    There is the feeling that an ad-hoc attempt to get past the censors unwittingly produces an utterly Czechoslovakian perspective.To those familiar with Eastern Europe pre 1989, the sense of time having become stuck & disorientated & playing games with your perception is part of

    the magic of this film.

    My fondness for this film is rooted in a nostalgia or need to remember

    communist Europe. I first visited Prague in the mid 1980's & i was so struck that the Prague of this film replicated almost identically the Prague i found & came to know 20 years later, in the last years of Communism. My nights at the Cafe

    Slavia were exactly as the Jazz club scenes depicted in the film, with the same dramas & the same characters. Also the sense of mistrust , betrayal & of being watched & listened to & the perverse relation to Psychiatry. I thought this connection was very profound, & it made me think this film was, in some way, important . Both the film & my experiences in Prague sat either side of the Brief thaw of the late sixties. They bypassed that optimistic period & looked directly at each other; the one reflecting a National trauma of the war & Communist conversion & the other reflecting the trauma of 2 decades of

    stagnation. Often when people think of Czech New Wave, they think in terms of 60's youth & Prague spring. But this film brought home to me how brief that

    period really was & it's focus is the context from which that period rose &

    returned to; a shockingly, relentless, hyper-unreal, oppressive isolation which was the former state of Czechoslovakia. Go see, fantastic -
    10hofnarr

    " . . . and the 5th horseman is fear."

    A prophecy in Zechariah 6: 1-3 mentions red horses, black horses, white horses, and grey horses riding out into the world with no real mention of their riders. But in Revelation 6:2-7 in a description of the Apocalypse the riders are given some characteristics: the white horse has a rider with a bow who "went out conquering and to conquer"; the rider of the red horse takes peace from the earth and is given a great sword; the rider on the black horse has a balance and illustrates the calamitous rise in prices of scarce and necessary food; and the rider of the pale horse's name is Death.

    Any type of war engenders cruelties. But when hope is displaced by fear, survival is surely threatened. As a fellow doctor tells Dr. Braun, in search of morphine to abate the pain of a wounded man on whom he has operated "We have up to 20 Jewish suicides a day - we manage to save most of them." Certainly a society that has placards proliferating everywhere admonishing "Inform promptly and accurately and insure your own safety," along with the 44811 informer number to call would not give much cause for hope. But Dr. Braun does not seem to give up hope completely - even when all is dark he says "A man is as he thinks - you can't change that." And yet Dr. Braun is assailed by fear also. More than once we hear martial music without seeing a band and Dr. Braun also sees a man with some sort of van who is there one moment and gone the next. Do we see what we fear most? It's hard to tell.

    I found the musical score very intriguing - starting off before the opening credits was a brass fanfare, merging into flutes and then saxophones (and/or other reed instruments) and then back to brass and flutes throughout the opening credit sequences against a backdrop of massed notices on walls. The succession of one type of instrument being replaced by another was continued throughout the film.

    I was limited to what the different wall placards were saying by occasional subtitles. It would have been interesting to know if the placards dealt with more than just informing. There was one word seen repeatedly - it seemed to start out "PYSA" or "PYHLA" or perhaps "PYKASRA" - the font type made it difficult to decipher . . . and my Czech is rather minimal, ah no . ..

    The film music ends much as it began with brass playing to images of trains, then flute and then brass with images of cars then more flutes followed by piano with views of crowds and then ending with the brass section again.

    "Death's a trifle if it's not my own."

    But Dr. Braun carries on as best he can - "A man is as he thinks - you can't change that."

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    • Trivia
      Jana Pracharová's debut.
    • Quotes

      docent Armin Braun: I was never interested in politics.

    • Connections
      Referenced in The Projectionist (1970)
    • Soundtracks
      Toccata and Fugue in D minor
      (uncredited)

      Music by Johann Sebastian Bach

      Played during the shower scene

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    • Release date
      • February 12, 1965 (Czechoslovakia)
    • Country of origin
      • Czechoslovakia
    • Language
      • Czech
    • Also known as
      • Le cinquième cavalier, c'est la peur
    • Production companies
      • Filmové studio Barrandov
      • Ceskoslovenský Filmexport
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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