Facing The Enemy

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Original Title “Rozhovor s nepriatel’om”; An Slovakian Production 2007; 35mm colour; 90 minutes; aspect ratio 1:1,85; Dolby SRD sound; original language Slovakian; availeble with engl. subtitles

CREDITS

DIRECTOR	Patrik Lancaric
PRODUCER	Marek Veselický
SOUND	Ján Ravasz
COMPOSER	Vladimír Martinka
CINEMATOGRAPHER	Peter Kelíšek
SCREENPLAY	Peter Pavlac, Patrik Lancaric, Marko Igonda
EDITOR	Lubomír Cechovic
PRODUCTION COMPANY	Farbyka

Cast

Helmut Kampen	Marko Igonda
The Partisan	Alexander Bárta
Commissar-Commander	Boris Farkaš
The Woman	Monika Hilmerová
Narrator	Štefan Kvietik

SYNOPSIS

In the final days of World War II, a Slovakian partisan is taken prisoner by the Germans and sentenced to death. He is taken into the woods by a German soldier, who has orders to shoot him, but the German seems reluctant to carry out his task. The two march on and on through the bitter cold of the snowy mountains until the German reveals that he won't kill the partisan because he sees this as a moral victory. Then other partisans appear and now the German is the prisoner. Will morality prevail and his life be spared?