Divided We Fall (film)


Divided We Fall Czech Musme si pomhat literally translated as We Must Help Each Other is a 2000 Czech film directed by Jan Hebejk. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Josef gets his fertility tested to confirm a longtime rumor He cant have children. Humiliated by his earlier antics, Horst takes revenge on Marie by forcing them to provide lodging for his supervisor, a committed Nazi bureaucrat, who had suffered a stroke after Nazis kill his son for deserting the army. Marie refuses to accept him on the grounds that she is pregnant. Unfortunately, the community is wellaware that Josef and Marie are infertile, and Josef proposes that David get Marie pregnant in order to stage a miracle and avoid further investigation. After much resistance from Marie, she and David have sex. Marie becomes pregnant, and Horst eventually apologizes for his previous behavior. As the Germans lose ground in World War II, Horsts behavior begins to change. Based on his previous suspicions that someone else is living with Josef and Marie, he redirects German authorities when the latter search the street house by house. Finally, the Germans are defeated and the Czech people take brutal revenge on them. As the Germans are being driven out, Marie goes into labor. Josef frantically searches for a doctor, but the streets of the city are in chaos and the Naziaffiliated doctor has already been captured.He finally finds the new ruling troika which includes his old neighbor Franta as the representative of the Czech Resistance. Unfortunately, Franta remembers him as a collaborator and orders his arrest. Josef protests his innocence and invites them to meet David as proof of his ambivalence towards the Jews, in exchange for a chance to find the Nazi doctor to deliver Maries baby. In the jails, Josef finds that the doctor has committed suicide but also finds Horst crouched in a corner. Remembering Horsts previous actions that saved Davids life, Josef tells the Czech soldiers that Horst is his doctor. The partisans escort them to Josefs house, driving through the ruins of the city. Horst is able to quickly assume the role of Maries doctor due to his experience deliveri

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