Former members of the French Foreign Legion of Czechoslovak origin are returning home. The mother of Václav Malý from Plzeň is waiting for her son at the airport, but he is not among the home-comers. In a fortress in the middle of the jungle, he's made friends with his fellow countryman Petr, Tadeusz from Poland and Gerhardt from Germany. They all want to desert, because they can't take the cruel treatment from Sergeant Storch any longer. Storch lost a golden statuette gambling, but didn't accept his loss. Václav became an accidental witness to the treacherous murder of Storch's opponent, lived through a dangerous fight in the jungle, and witnessed a massacre in a village. Retreating, he found wounded Lieutenant Wolf in the jungle, and saved his life. Wolf took over the command of the troop, and offered Václav the position of his batman. Václav accepted the offer, despite his friends' disapproval. But when he found out that Wolf was an ex-SS officer who served in Plzeň at the end of the war, he realized that this was the man who murdered his sister and his father. He decided to kill Wolf. He joined Wolf on a reconnaissance in the jungle as a volunteer. Neither one of them returned. The next plane is landing in Prague. Petr is on board. However, he can't bring himself to tell Václav's mother the truth.
legionář Václav Malý
český voják Petr
německý voják Gerhardt
poručík Wolf
seržant Storch
polský voják Tadeusz
Antek
Jocker
major, velitel pevnosti
pobočník
Václavova matka
Lord
Petrův otec
legionář
mladíček
Ketham
doktor
König
Dietrich
legionář služba
Bellini
poručík
podporučík
seržant, šéf PM
kaprál PM
radiotelegrafista
radiotelegrafista
sluha
Karlova dívka
Karel
mladíček
vietnamský voják
vietnamská dívka
otec dívky
strážný věznice
legionář
legionář
legionář
legionář
legionář
legionář
legionář
legionář
legionář
legionář
Dagmar Zelenková, Tomáš Kulík
Vladimír Řezníček, Jaroslav Kupšík
Ervín Páleš, Ivette Dubois, plk. František Nevěřil, Jaromír Lauda
Ladislav Černý (violové sólo), FISYO, Orchestr Karla Krautgartnera
František Belfín (FISYO), Karel Krautgartner (Orchestr Karla Krautgartnera)
Le petit chemin, Pierres du passé, Pohádková země
Bohumil Šmída (Le petit chemin), Bohumil Šmída (Pierres du passé), Bohumil Šmída (Pohádková země)
Maurice Orion (Le petit chemin), Maurice Orion (Pierres du passé), Jaromír Hořec (Pohádková země)
Maurice Orion (Le petit chemin), Maurice Orion (Pierres du passé)
Černý prapor
The Black Battalion
film
feature
drama, war
Czechoslovakia
1958
1958
13 June 1958
Šmída – Kunc, František Břetislav Kunc, Bohumil Šmída
long
85 min
Czech
Festival: 1. festival českých a slovenských filmů Banská Bystrica
1959
Banská Bystrica / Czechoslovakia
Festival: 11. mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary
1958
Karlovy Vary / Czechoslovakia