The Coward

Drama, War

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Jiří Weiss

Status Released

Release Date 1962-04-13

Storyline

In a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-Nazi partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans in fear.