Until The Rooster Crows
May 22 1972
•2h 34m
•Drama, TV Movie, War
Existentialist drama based on the play of the same name by the Slovak writer Ivan Bukovčan. The story of ten apparently randomly selected people placed in a beer hall of a small town during the Nazi occupation of Slovakia. Slowly, facts begin to emerge, characters are drawn, and the story begins to gather a dangerous pace.
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Ladislav Chudík
Jozef Kroner
Samuel Adamčík
Terézia Kronerová
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