In October 1953, five friends decide to leave communist Czechoslovakia and get to West Berlin. They manage to cross the guarded border but are soon detected in East German territory. Unknowingly, they initiate the largest armed manoeuvre since WW2; twenty thousand German Police and Soviet Army members are mobilised, all because of five teenage boys. After an extensive hunt, two members of the group are caught and, after extradition to Czechoslovakia, executed. In the following week, with no shelter, food, or rest, the remaining three, the Mašín brothers and their injured friend Milan Paumer, finally make it to West Berlin. They save themselves but the regime will have its vengeance on their families.

Cast / Oskar Hes , Jan Nedbal , Stefan Konarske , Tatiana Dyková , Adam Ernest , Karolína Lea Nováková , Matěj Hádek    Writer / Marek Epstein    Story / Barbara Masin    DoP / Friede Clausz    Editor / Petr Turyna    Sound / David Titěra , Viktor Ekrt    Music / Karel Havlíček    Costumes / Ján Kocman    Make-Up / Adéla Bursová    Set Designer / Milan Býček

Release date / 26 October 2023

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