Miroslav Macháček
Dr. Braun
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The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (Czech: A pátý jezdec je strach) is a 1965 Czechoslovak film about the Holocaust that was directed by Zbyněk Brynych. Instead of depicting gas chambers and concentration camps, the film examines the subtler but equally debilitating mental effects of oppression.
"The Fifth Horseman is Fear" is such a nearly perfect film that it comes as a shock, in the last ten minutes, to discover how deeply involved you have become.
...and the Fifth Horseman Is Fear: Directed by Zbynek Brynych. With Miroslav Machácek, Olga Scheinpflugová, Zdenka Procházková, Jirí Adamíra. A Jewish doctor in Nazi-occupied Prague risks his life by assisting a gravely injured member of the resistance.
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- Drama, War
- Zbynek Brynych
- 1968-05-06
Focusing on the intense anxiety, paranoia and terror prevalent in any totalitarian system, Zbyněk Brynych’s The Fifth Horseman Is Fear subverts its historical context, creating a frighteningly relevant portrait of a society ruled by fear.
- 98 min
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- slojinksi2
Jan 6, 2020 · The Fifth Horseman Is Fear is a brilliantly visualized film, evoking an atmosphere of intense fear and anxiety prevalent in a fascist state. The expressionist imagery and the ‘Kafkaesque’ protagonist of Brynych retain an overbearing sense of foreboding from the first to last.
Dr. Braun, a Jewish physician forbidden to practice in Nazi-occupied Prague, has found a job in a warehouse. When a fellow tenant, a butcher named ¿idlák, asks the doctor to remove a bullet from the wound of a political fugitive, the apathetic physician at first refuses, and although he...
A former doctor traverses Nazi-occupied Prague in search of morphine for a wounded partisan. The Fifth Horseman Is Fear turns that odyssey into an exercise in war-noir suspense and a bleak expressionistic character study of both its protagonist and the city itself.
