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Film Club - In the Shadow

A very successful Czech thriller In the Shadow (Ve stínu) will soon be projected in the Czech Centre Rotterdam. Fans of the Czech cinematography will enjoy the screening of this movie in April. Set in former Czechoslovakia amid the dramatic events of the 1950s is a gripping crime narrative that ultimately intervenes in the fates of the characters and their loved ones.
 

Captain Hakl (starred by Ivan Trojan) is investigating a jewelery store heist. Thanks to behind-the-scenes scheming on the part of the secret police though, a run-of-the-mill burglary becomes a political affair. On the orders of State Security, Hakl’s investigation is taken over by Major Zenke (starred by Sebastian Koch), an East German police specialist, under whose leadership it is shown that the stolen gold was meant to support the Jewish community in “financing Zionist terrorism”. But Hakl’s experienced instincts as a criminologist are discovering an altogether different story, and he continues in the investigation on his own.

 

Can one a man withstand a struggle with the well-connected network of the communist police? The adversary is powerful, and Hakl soon finds out he can believe nothing and no one. Hanging over everyone is a shadow of their past, of their weaknesses, that can make a culprit of a victim and a hero of a culprit.

 

 

When: 8 April 2015, 7:30 pm

Where: Czech Centre Rotterdam, Westersingel 9

In Czech language with English subtitles.

Entrance fee:  4€

http://hague.czechcentres.cz/programma/meer/film-club-in-de-schaduw/