01 Nov 1963
Struggles in an Ancient City
1943, the Japanese Army is falling back to the Pacific, leaving only collaborationist troops. Commissar Yang Xiaodong is sent to inflitrate the provincial capital.
White Darkness
A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Soviet soldiers.
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Július Pántik Pavel Kafka
Mária Prechovská Nurse Katka
Nataša Tanská Nurse Rozka Kafková
Jozef Budský Laco Pánek
L. H. Struna Jan Holesa
Oľga Sýkorová Július Bártfay 
Dana Medřická 
Viliam Záborský Štefan Figura 
František Dibarbora Karol L. Zachar Jozef Kováč 
Ladislav Chudík 
Rudolf Deyl 
Vladimír Salač Vladimír Durdík Jozef Šándor 
František Kovářík 
Radovan Lukavský
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