1965 · czech-new-wave · war · holocaust
The Fifth Horseman Is Fear
Directed by Zbyněk Brynych1h 38m1965
In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself and everyone living in his building complex in danger.
Our read: The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive czech-new-wave · war · holocaust entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, extreme czech-new-wave / war, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
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- bleak
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