Escape to Berlin

Crimes of Czech Communists, Thieves and Murderers

Directed by Matin Froyda, Jan Novák, Czech Republic 2023, 98 min.

The story of a group of Mašín brothers goes back to the territory of two countries that are no longer on the map - the settings are Czechoslovakia and East Germany, its period the early 1950s. Starring five young men who declared their war on Czechoslovak communism in the early 1950s. Hot on their heels is an army of German militiamen and Soviet soldiers searching for an ‘armed gang of terrorist bandits’...

The screening is followed by a discussion with director Jan Novák. 

In original version.