Abeceda straha . The Alphabet of Fear
The story of this WWII crime movie is supposedly based on real events and set in the Croatian Nazi-puppet state. Vera, a young communist, is on a mission to acquire important information – a list of spies that will be sent to the territory under partisan control. Pretending to be a provincial illite...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Serbo-Croatian |
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Jadran Film Zagreb
1961
Yugoslavia |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:e545e224-75da-4c29-8005-18403cf43bad |
| Summary: | The story of this WWII crime movie is supposedly based on real events and set in the Croatian Nazi-puppet state. Vera, a young communist, is on a mission to acquire important information – a list of spies that will be sent to the territory under partisan control. Pretending to be a provincial illiterate, Vera gets a job as a maid in the family of a high-ranking government official. Vera’s cover is endangered when the official’s oldest daughter, engaged to a German officer, starts having doubts about her, but her younger sister actually covers up for Vera’s suspicious absences, as she believes that she is having an affair. Since Vera has made little progress on her main task, resistance chiefs plan a decisive action during a dinner party attended by important German and Ustasha officers. Their action is, however, diverted by an air-raid and the party moves to the basement where the officers discover some lost documents and realize that Vera understands German. When she finally sees the list she has been searching for, she is being forced to tell the names of her superiors. The partisans manage to use the confusion created by the air-raid to break into the apartment, escaping with the prisoners. With Vera only slightly wounded the mission is accomplished. |
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| Published: | 1961 |