A Jewish doctor in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia risks his life and attempts to regain his identity by assisting a wounded political fugitive.
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| Miroslav Machácek | ... | Dr. Braun | |
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Olga Scheinpflugová | ... | Music Teacher |
| Zdenka Procházková | ... | Mrs. Vesely | |
| Jirí Adamíra | ... | Mr. Vesely | |
| Josef Vinklár | ... | Fanta | |
| Ilja Prachar | ... | Sidlak | |
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Jana Pracharová | ... | Sidlak's Wife |
| Jirí Vrstála | ... | Police Inspector | |
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Tomás Hádl | ... | Honzik |
| Eva Svobodová | ... | Porter's Wife | |
| Jirí Pleskot | ... | Husband | |
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Milan Mach | ... | Husband |
| Mirko Musil | ... | Husband | |
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Roman Hemala | ... | Husband |
| Slávka Budínová | ... | Mrs. Wiener | |
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Dr. Braun is forbidden to practice medicine because he's a Jew living in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. He's old, seems resigned about the fate of the Jews, and even works in the Department of Confiscation of Jewish Property. One day a neighbor asks him to assist a wounded political fugitive. Dr. Braun reluctantly operates to remove the bullet, but warns that plenty of morphine will soon be needed in order to keep the man from screaming when he awakes, which would attract unwanted attention. After some soul searching, Dr. Braun decides to redeem himself and reclaim his identify as a person and doctor by continuing to provide assistance. His search for the scarce morphine takes him on a nightmarish journey which includes a brothel where local women are forced to be prostitutes for German soldiers, a bar where the locals try to drown their misery in booze and dancing, and a Jewish insane asylum with a high suicide rate. Meanwhile, in a world where there is constant propaganda instructing... Written by TimeNTide
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6 May 1968 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Music by Johann Sebastian Bach
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Toccata and Fugue in D minor(uncredited)
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach
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The Fifth Horseman is Fear is one of those remarkable classics of the Czech so-called New Wave film making, until it was suppressed by the Communist government (and this film, incidentally was banned there). This is one of my most favorite films and I have been waiting and waiting for it to become available (it used to be distributed by Orion Films). Finally, the DVD was issued, and I discovered that one of the key scenes is omitted. This scene, the protagonist's visit to a Nazi brothel (in the course of his search for morphine for the wounded resistance fighter) was one of the original highlights of an already wonderful film. So what happened? Was it censored in the copy that the DVD people used? If anyone has any information about this or as to how I can find the "real" thing, I'd be grateful.