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Midnight Mass

Aug 24, 1962

★ 7.0

Overview

On Christmas Eve, 1944, in Nazi-occupied Slovakia, the Kubiš family grapples with survival amidst brutal reprisals. Marián collaborates as a fascist guard leader, while his sister Angela has an affair with their Nazi lodger, Major Brecker. The situation escalates when their younger son, Juraj, a former partisan fighter, returns home wounded. As Germans search homes for escapees, Juraj hides in the attic, while an unsettling Christmas dinner unfolds below with Major Brecker present.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

Štúdio hraných filmov Bratislava

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Cast

Vilma Kubisová

Hana Meličková

Valentin Kubis

Jozef Kroner

Angela

Margit Bara

Brecker

Hannjo Hasse

Palo

Ladislav Chudík

Marián Kubis

Karol Machata

Katka Malishova

Emília Vášáryová

Durko Kubis

Ivan Mistrík

Wioherd

Jindřich Narenta

Farár

Vladimír Šmeral

Dr. Rasko

Jiří Pleskot

Saleswoman

Eva Mária Chalupová

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