Product Details

• Actors: Ivan Mistrík, Daniela Smutná, Jirina Sejbalová, Frantisek Smolík, Blanka Bohdanová
• Directors: Jirí Weiss
• Producers: Juliet and Darkness ( Romeo, Julia a tma ) ( Sweet Light in a Dark Room ) Romeo, Juliet and Darkness Romeo, Julia a tma Romeo, Sweet Light in a Dark Room
• Format: Import, PAL, Subtitled
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Second Run
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0017GMPP4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #233,697 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Czech ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: A young man shelters a fugitive Jewish girl in the attic of his apartment building during the brutal 1942 Nazi occupation of Prague, becoming her only link to the outside world. Fear, anxiety and suspicion soon turn into gratitude and love between them. A poetic and beautifully-filmed drama which examines the consequences of their actions. Ji?í Weiss was a leading figure in post-war Czechoslovak cinema. Fleeing his homeland during the 1968 Soviet invasion, he settled in the USA and died there in 2004. This is the first ever DVD release of the film anywhere in the world. ...Romeo, Juliet and Darkness ( Romeo, Julia a tma ) ( Sweet Light in a Dark Room )

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great little-seen holocaust film, April 4, 2001

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This review is from: "Romeo, Juliet and Darkness " [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"romeo, juliet and darkness," jiri weiss' story of a young man in prague who hides a jewish girl during the war is a moving and ultimately harrowing film that spares us the excesses of steven spielberg's "schindler's list." prior to "schindler" several amazing films about the holocaust were made in eastern europe though unfortunately the tendency today is to see spielberg's film, because it's a big-budget hollywood picture, as the ONLY film ever made on the subject. weiss lacks spielberg's sentimentality and his sermonizing and his film is the stronger of the two for it. although "schindler" was amazing and powerful in many ways it isn't the definitive statement on the subject and, unfortunately and through no outright fault of its own perhaps, it has eclipsed several outstanding films simply because it's not subtitled.