He sold his soul to save her. She might never forgive him.
A Czech journalist joins a Prague radio station what broadcasts Nazi propaganda in order to protect his Jewish wife. However, as the Nazi rule over Czechoslovakia calls for more and more collaboration, his relationship with his wife spirals downward.
Acting
Jana Plodková's devastating restraint as Hana unravels.
Direction
Najbrt traps you in Emil's suffocating rationalizations.
Production
Claustrophobic radio station as moral prison.
Director
Marek Najbrt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film confronts Czech complicity during occupation, a history often overshadowed by resistance narratives. Najbrt deliberately avoids the heroic 'Anthropoid' story to examine quieter, uglier compromises.
The radio station set was built in Prague's Invalidovna, a Baroque military complex—its institutional dread predating the Nazis. Plodková and Daniel improvised their final confrontation after the scripted dialogue felt too explanatory.
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