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Adelheid (1970)

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Adelheid

František Vláčil | Czechoslovakia | 1970 | Unclassified (15+)
Film

When

Wed 1 Oct 2025

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Adapted from his own novel by Czech author Vladimír Körner, Vlácil’s provocative first colour film focuses on the frictions between Czechs and Germans in post-war Czechoslovakia. Set during the mass expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II, it focuses on a returning Czech soldier who falls in love with his German housemaid, but who turns out to be the daughter of a notorious Nazi war criminal.

Regarded as controversial by the Czech authorities, the film originally received a minimal release but has since gone on to be regarded as one of the director’s greatest works.

4K DCP courtesy of the National Film Archive in Prague.

Format: 4K DCP
Language: Czech and German with English subtitles
Source: National Film Archive in Prague
Courtesy: National Film Archive in Prague
Runtime: 99 mins

Event duration

99 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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