23.02.2026

At Czech Film Wednesday on March 4, we will be showing the film "Daleká cesta" from 1949.

The journey of the Prague Jews to the German extermination camps is traced using the Kaufmann family as an example. Daughter Hana is a doctor and married to her non-Jewish colleague Dr. Antonín Bureš. However, the marriage cannot prevent Hana's parents from being deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. When Antonín sneaks in there, he not only experiences the degrading living conditions, but also learns that her parents-in-law have already been "transferred" to the East - to Auschwitz, Majdanek or Sobibor ...

Director Alfréd Radok was himself interned in a labor camp and lost close relatives in the concentration camps. Constantly interrupted by documentary film material that links the individual fates with contemporary history, the play scenes condense into a nightmarish, expressionistic "dance of death".

Daleká cesta disappeared from Czech cinemas in 1949 after just a few screenings and was not shown again until 1991. The film was digitally restored in 2019 and screened at the Berlinale in 2020.

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