Transport From Paradise
Cast & Crew
Zbynek Brynych
Zdenek ¿tepánek
Cestmír Randa
Ilja Prachar
Jaroslav Rau¿er
Jirí Vr¿tala
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
During World War II, the Nazis set up a Jewish concentration camp in Terezín, a ghetto in southeast Germany. There are no gas chambers in the compound, and the prisoners handle their own administration and run small businesses. Underneath the comparative serenity, however, is the ever-present struggle of the oppressed; anti-fascist posters are secretly printed and pasted on the walls, and the chairman of the Council of Jewish Elders refuses to sign a list of Jews scheduled for transport because he knows that they are destined for Auschwitz. Consequently, the chairman is put in prison, and the Germans find a more cooperative successor. After the capture of a rebellious smithy worker, the final preparations for the transport are concluded. Hundreds of prisoners are herded together and lined up at a railroad siding. Still unaware that their stay at the camp was merely a waiting period before being sent to the gas chambers, they save places for their loved ones and remain in formation until they are placed aboard the train--bound for Auschwitz.
Director
Zbynek Brynych
Cast
Zdenek ¿tepánek
Cestmír Randa
Ilja Prachar
Jaroslav Rau¿er
Jirí Vr¿tala
Ladislav Pe¿ek
Valtr Taub
Vlastimil Brodský
Josef Abrhám
Josef Vinklár
Jaroslav Rozsíval
Václav Lohniský
Jirina ¿tepnicková
Martin Gregor
Jindrich Narenta
Jirí Nemecek
Franti¿ek Nemec
Helga Cocková
Vladimír Hrabánek
Juraj Herz
Vladimír Linka
Emanuel Kovarík
Václav Vondrácek
Vladimír Navrátil
¿tefan Bulejko
Zdenek Braunschläger
Rudolf Cortéz
Zdenek Jelínek
Franti¿ek Löring
Marta Richterová
Jan ¿míd
Ladislav Potme¿il
Miroslav Svoboda
Zlatomír Vacek
Fred Bulín
Anny Frey
Maurice Orion
Crew
Milo¿ Alster
Jaroslav Brabenec
Zbynek Brynych
Jan Curík
Miroslav Hájek
Jirí Hartman
Juraj Herz
Rudolf Iltis
Jaroslav Jaro¿
Arno¿t Lustig
Arno¿t Lustig
Jirí Pokorný
Jirí Pospí¿il
Jaroslav Solnicka
Jirí Sternwald
Franti¿ek Uldrich
Ludmila Venclíková
¿ebor--bor
Karel ¿kvor
Jitka ¿ulcová
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in Terezín. Released in Czechoslovakia in March 1963 as Transport z ráje; running time: 100 min.
