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Honza Steiner was no ruffian, no hoodlum, he was just a boy who happened to live in the wrong place at the wrong time. He erred from the straight and narrow through a series of historical events and unlucky strokes of fate. He came from a family that was half German and not have been moved out of the country after the war, but suffered injustice and humiliation in the border region of Czechoslovakia. His father fled the country by shooting his way across the border, and the situation thus changed from bad to worse for his unhappy wife and son. Honza was “brought up” in children’s homes, at a reform school and finally in prison. He waged a long, undeclared war, devoid of accepted rules, against a certain police officer. The conflict came to a head with a staged manhunt for the young man, who had been unlucky enough to shoot his sworn enemy. He was sentenced to death. That was the tragic end of his battle against the society and its representative. This story about the ambiguity of seeing god and evil in black and white was inspired by real events which took place during the period between the 1950s and the 1970s.

Czech Republic - 2001 - 1 h 48 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Jiri Svoboda Script Jiri Svoboda Camera Ivo Popek Sound Jiri Meixner Sets Frantisek Vokral Editing Josef Valusiak Music Daniel Landa Cast Jan Dolanský, Petr Motloch, Matej Hadek, Yvetta Kornova

Production Czech Television Ostrava, Hana Bila, Dvorakova 18, 729 20 Ostrava 1, République tchèque Tél : + 420 596 20 12 72 Fax : + 420 261 21 13 54 E-mail : hana.bila@czech-tv.cz

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