In spring 1945, students of Prague gymnasiums are taken by the German occupiers to dig trenches. The boys have to come to terms with harsh conditions in the camp. They try to fetch some food, and, in the evenings, find comfort in singing the camper's song "Arizona", accompanied by Žorž on guitar. The boys do not want to passively wait for the end of the war and prepare a rebellion and escape to the Soviet army. Their efforts, however, fail. Leaflets are thrown from an allied aircraft to the trenches, calling for the German soldiers to capitulate. Žorž runs away with one of the leaflets, is caught and forced by beating to collaborate with the Gestapo. Upon his return to the camp, the boys do not believe him, and Žorž eventually tells them the whole truth. One night, the boys make Commander Götschke and the other Germans drunk, steal secret plans from their cupboard and send them to partisans by postwoman Halina. In the morning, Götschke is furious. He interrogates Žorž and orders him to report in person at the Gestapo department in town. During an air-raid, Žorž meets waitress Terry in the shelter and spends the night with her. In the morning, he sees Germans running away, and thus returns to his friends in the trenches. He meets them on the road and warns them of the Gestapo men whose car he saw in front of the camp. The boys begin to run away, but Žorž is shot dead by Götschke.
zákopník Hrbek zvaný Frája
zákopník Pavel Janyš zvaný Brejlovec
zákopník Hančl zvaný Žorž
zákopník Pešek zvaný Pešula
zákopník zvaný Profesor
zákopník Tonda zvaný Hezoun
zákopník Myška
zákopník v kuchyni
zákopník Dlouhán
zákopník Zrzek
zákopník Pinďa
scharführer SA Götschke
obersturmführer SA Nachtlinger
kuratoriumsleiter Obádal
příslušník SS
řidič nákladního auta
číšnice Terry
listonoška Halina
Kotowská
vyčesaná slečna
člen vedení tábora
zákopník
řidič vozu
člen jednotek Volkssturm
Boca Abrhámová, Lilian Havlíčková
Zákopy
Jaromír Dědek, Vladimír Mácha, J. Suchý
plk.Alois Bíca
Pavla Marková, Miloš Červinka, Eliška Švarcová, Anna Mejtská
Štěpán Koníček (FISYO)
Arizona, Na Okoř je cesta, Má roztomilá Baruško, Magnetová hora, Pokrok, Volha, Volha /německá verze/, Ej, uchněm
Vítězslav Nezval (Magnetová hora), Karel Tobis (Pokrok)
Vítězslav Nezval (Magnetová hora), Vladimír Rohan (Pokrok)
mužský sbor (Arizona), mužský sbor (Na Okoř je cesta), mužský sbor (Má roztomilá Baruško), Lilli Hodáčová (Magnetová hora), sbor (Pokrok), Miloš Nedbal (Volha, Volha /německá verze/), sbor (Ej, uchněm)
Zpívali jsme Arizonu
We sang "Arizona"
Zákopy
film
feature
drama
Czechoslovakia
1964
1964
20 November 1964
Šebor - Bor
long
83 min
Czech