The Night Overtake Me

  • Czechoslovakia Zastihla mě noc
TV spot
Czechoslovakia, 1985, 130 min

Directed by:

Juraj Herz

Based on:

Jaromíra Kolárová (book)

Cinematography:

Viktor Růžička

Composer:

Michael Kocáb

Cast:

Jana Dolanská, Jana Brejchová, Rudolf Hrušínský, Dagmar Havlová, Sylvia Turbová, Valérie Zawadská, Hana Brejchová, Zdeňka Sajfertová, Yvetta Kornová (more)
(more professions)

Plots(1)

The story of a communist reporter Jožka Jaburková, who was tortured to death in the Rawensbrück concentration camp. The movie is a mosaic of her fragmentary memories while locked up in a concrete cell shortly before her death. (official distributor synopsis)