Symk (1960) aka Skid DVD-R

Starring Jiri Vala, Jirina Jiraskova, Jirina Svorcova, Walter Taub, Ivan Palec
Directed by Zbynek Brynych
Print: Black/White
Runtime: 104 min
Genre: Drama
Language: German, Czech with English subtitles

Czech immigrant Frantisek Král has a terrible car accident in West Berlin. The West German secret service immediately takes advantage of the situation, provides him with a new identity and starts training Král, who is suffering from partial amnesia, to become a spy and to get hold of a microfilm from Prague. At first everything goes according to plan, but when he realises his home town is anything but the dreary, suffering place that had been drummed into him, things move in a different direction…