The House in Karp Lane

Name: The House in Karp Lane
Director: Kurt Hoffmann
Genre: Drama
Released: 1965-03-12
Duration: 2 h 35 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Edith Schultze-Westrum, František Filipovský, Ladislav Kríz, Wolfgang Kieling, Rosel Schäfer

Directed by Kurt Hoffmann

Drama

19652h 35m7.5

Overview

The film depicts the fate of the residents of an apartment block in Prague’s Jewish quarter following the invasion by German troops in 1939. Among them is an elderly widow who had once disowned her son and now wishes to bring him to Brazil; there are also the owners of a stationery shop, who are driven to ruin by the German occupiers. The caretaker Glaser, who is of German descent, also comes under pressure when his son is arrested in a communist pub. To save his own skin, he informs on two young people who are active in the resistance.