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Keeper of Dynamite

Based on a novel by Jan Drda, this short drama depicts a group of wartime quarry workers and their partisan activities. On discussing a lack of Partisan activities, a group of quarry workers decide to steal dynamite to blow up the railway lines used by the Germans themselves. The quarry store keeper and his wife sacrifice themselves when the German soldiers investigate the attacks.

Credits

Cast
Fiala, Eman; Svobodová, Eva; Struna, Ladislav; Zdenek Sirovy (director); Pavel Jurácek (screenplay); Jan Drda (script); Milan Duda (camera); Eman Fiala (cast member); Eva Svobodová (cast member); Ladislav Struna (cast member)
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: Hlídac Dynamitu. English.
Original source: Reproduction of: Hlídac Dynamitu Czechoslovakia, 1962. 16mm Comb BW pos. | The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-507243. | Contributors: Jurácek, Pavel; Drda, Jan; Duda, Milan. | Production Company: Film Studio and Television Academy of Musical Arts. | Production Company: Czechoslovak Filmexport.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:24:32) : sound, black and white | monochrome
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Drama | Railroads -- Vandalism -- Drama | War -- Underground movements | Railroads -- Vandalism | Nazism | Fascism | Second World War (1939-1945) | Partisans | Railways | Guerrilla warfare | Workers | Resistance movements | Soldiers | Executions | Wars | Czechoslovakia | Drama | 1939-1945 | Webcast

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Sources

  1. UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record

Record added 2026-11-08 20:56:10