Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. The Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia is starkly rendered in this symbolic film written and directed by Zbynek Brynych...
...fancy; it is frankly and almost completely autobiographical. Like his plays, Exile is a characteristically raw and intensely passionate statement. Weiss's first-person hero is a German-born half Jew who at 18 leaves his country to get away from the Nazis. He subsequently sojourns in England, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Sweden (where Weiss now lives). But the title refers not so much to the transient state of a political refugee as it does to the traditional alienated state of an artistic spirit...
...reverse the film, which suddenly sent the actors waddling backwards through doors that closed behind them, putting their hats on instead of taking them off, and shoveling food out of their mouths instead of in. The kids, of course, like to do the same with home movies. Now from Czechoslovakia comes a whole movie that runs from end to beginning...
...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A stark, symbolic tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, raised to a high level of creative cinema by the measured skill of Writer-Director Zbynēk Brynych...
...underscore East Germany's claim that it is a sovereign nation. It was also likely that Ulbricht, as the East bloc's last surviving Stalinist, hoped that a new Berlin crisis might induce a show of comradely support in Eastern Europe, dampening the trends toward liberalism in Czechoslovakia and Rumania. Since it was his third move in recent months against West Berlin's access routes, Ulbricht also obviously hoped to shake the city's self-confidence and discourage foreign investors...