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Ostrov

Ostrov

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The author attempted to analyze the disintegration of the Slovak Army before the outbreak of the SNP and showed how the conditions grew for the army to join the Uprising. Through the characters of soldiers and officers of a small unit of the Slovak Army, deployed away from the events of the war, the play captures the suffocating atmosphere of expectation that existed just before the outbreak of the SNP.

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Status

Released

Original Language

Slovak

Runtime

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Rating

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Release Date

01 January 1981

Country

Czechoslovakia

Cast

Štefan Kvietik

Štefan Kvietik

Milan Kňažko

Milan Kňažko

Ivan Rajniak

Ivan Rajniak

Jaroslav Rozsíval

Jaroslav Rozsíval

Juraj Slezáček

Juraj Slezáček

Stano Dančiak

Stano Dančiak

Marián Labuda

Marián Labuda

Slavo Drozd

Slavo Drozd

Vladimír Obšil

Vladimír Obšil

Jozef Vajda

Jozef Vajda

Ľubo Gregor

Ľubo Gregor

(uncredited)

Zuzana Frenglová

Zuzana Frenglová

(uncredited)

Daniel Junas

Daniel Junas

(uncredited)

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