Sokolovo (film)

Sokolovo (Russian title Соколово) is a 1974 Soviet–Czechoslovak war film made by Otakar Vávra depicting the Battle of Sokolovo in 1943. The film was published in two parts and was meant as the middle part of Vávra's "war trilogy" consisting of movies Days of Betrayal, Sokolovo and Liberation of Prague.

Plot
The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.

Cast

 * Ladislav Chudík as Ludvík Svoboda
 * Vladimir Samoilov as generálporučík
 * Yury Solomin as general Shafarenko
 * Bohumil Pastorek as Klement Gottwald
 * Martin Štěpánek as npor. Otakar Jaroš
 * Lev Ivanov as náměstek lidového komisaře
 * Jiří Pleskot as Eduard Beneš
 * Hanjo Hasse as Reinhard Heydrich
 * Vladimír Ráž as Sergěj Ingr
 * Josef Langmiler as Zdeněk Fierlinger
 * Ladislav Hádl as Kopecký
 * Ivan Ryzhov as pplk. Bilyutin
 * Štefan Kvietik as Špígl
 * Pavel Pípal as Opatrný
 * Jiří Krampol as Karel Horák
 * Jan Kanyza as Rataj
 * Rudolf Jelínek as ppor.Antonín Sochor
 * Ladislav Lakomý as Rediš
 * Emil Horváth as Daniš
 * Renáta Doleželová as Anka Kadlecová
 * Yuriy Nazarov as npor. Filatov
 * Vladimír Protasenko as por. Šironin