Summary
During his time working as a screenwriter at the Barrandov film studios in the 1960s, the writer Arnošt Lustig only participated in films that were based on his literary source materials. In 1962, he reworked his story Noc a naděje (Night and Hope) into the wartime prison drama Transport from Paradise (A Convoy Leaving Paradise), which was directed by Zbyněk Brynych. This impressive movie is set in the Terezín ghetto in the autumn of 1944. The discovery of an anti-fascist poster by the camp’s management should be a death sentence for 4,000 men and women, who await immediate transportation to the Birkenau extermination camp. However, in an atmosphere of hopelessness and in the shadow of death, the prisoners do not lose their dignity, as well as their faith in humanity and in ordinary love… In the 1960s, Zbyněk Brynych also revisited the period of the Second World War with the films A pátý jezdec je Strach (And the Fifth Rider Is Fear, 1964) as well as Já, spravedlnost (I, Justice, 1967).
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