Zbabelec (1962) aka The Coward DVD-R

Starring Daniela Smutna, Ladislav Chudik, Oleg Strizhenov, Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Jindrich Narenta
Directed by Jiri Weiss
Print: Black/White
Runtime: 98 min
Genre: Drama
Language: Czech with English subtitles

In this moral study of heroism set in a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Soviet parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-German partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans, but at the end of his humiliation, finds the courage to save his honor and the innocent victims of the Germans.