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Men Without Wings (Czech: Muži bez křídel) is a 1946 Czech drama film directed by František Čáp. [1] It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, [2] where it was one of the winners of the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, later known as the Palme d'Or.
In the story, the lives of a German mill owner and his family in the Sudetenland are changed dramatically as Europe heats up in 1938. The movie is based on true events and is the first major motion picture to dramatize the post-World War II expulsion of 3 million ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia.
Czech districts with an ethnic German population in 1934 of 20% or more (pink), 50% or more (red), and 80% or more (dark red) [19] in 1935 Following the Munich Agreement of 1938, and the subsequent Occupation of Bohemia and Moravia by Hitler in March 1939, Edvard Beneš set out to convince the Allies during World War II that the expulsion of ethnic Germans was the best solution.
Under the Bridges (German: Unter den Brücken) is a 1946 German drama film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Hannelore Schroth, Carl Raddatz and Gustav Knuth.The film was shot in Berlin during the summer of 1944, but was not released until after the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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The film adaptation was director Brynych's third work concerned with the atrocities committed during World War II, after the 1962 Transport From Paradise - which dealt with the life in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, and was adapted from Arnošt Lustig's autobiographical novel, Night and Hope - and the 1964 The Fifth Horseman is Fear ...
Many Czech factories continued to produce Czech designs until converted to German designs. Czechoslovakia also had other major manufacturing companies. Entire steel and chemical factories were moved from Czechoslovakia and reassembled in Linz (which incidentally remains a heavily industrialized area of Austria).