No Entrance


No Entrance is a 1960 Czechoslovak film directed by František Vláčil and Milan Vošmik. The film consists of 2 segments - The Chase and The Wandering. Both segments are stories from life of Czechoslovk border guard.

Plot

The Chase

Young Border Guard accompanies Sergeant Major Border Guard on a patrol. They find tracks in a snow and follow them. They are met with snow storm and they get lost to each other Sergeant Major falls asleep but wakes up when he hears gunshots. He fnds Young Border Guard shot. He gets him to a Rural house where a young woman lives. She tells him about suspicious man who was there. Sergeant Major goes after the saboteur and catches him as the Young Border Guard dies.

The Wandering

Lieutenant Štěpánek lives with his family in a village in Šumava near border. Štěpánek's wife Jiřina doesn't like it there and wants to return to inlands. Štěpánek doesn't want to leave his job and is unhappy with his wife's lamentations. Their son Péťa adores his father. One day Jiřina starts to pack up when Štěpánek is on duty. Péťa runs away when he finds out his father wouldn't go with them. Everybody in the village then help to find Péťa and Jiřina decides to stay.

Cast

The Chase