Betrayer

The film is based on the extraordinary true story of one of the most scorned figures of Czech and European history, a Minister in the Protectorate government, Emanuel Moravec, an apostle of collaboration, betrayal and moral decay. The unsightly countenance of the bloated bald head with buggy eyes brings to mind a parody of a fiend taken from comics. We would expect that only a fool would fall for Nazi ideology... But when we take a closer look at Moravec’s personality, we get a completely different picture: a refined, educated, rational man, who took words such as “fatherland, nation and democracy” deadly seriously.

In 1938, E. Moravec had a career as a legionnaire, professional soldier, renowned military theoretician and well-known journalist, and he expected to climb the social ladder. But then the Munich Agreement was signed and Moravec was pulled into the vortex of history. As this tragic figure strides towards his bitter end in this horrific time, we are left with the unpleasant question: “How would we have acted in his place?” (ČSFD)