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Article: `Divided We Fall'.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 2, 2001
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In the `60s, Czech directors Milos Forman (later famed for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Ivan Passer and Jiri Menzel lighted up the big screen.
In Divided We Fall, director Jan Hrebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky deliver their countrymen's same wonderfully absurdist wit and sensibility.
In turn funny, sweet and tragic, the Oscar-nominated film is based on a true story. Like real people and unlike most World War II narrative films, its characters are shades of gray _ weak and strong, cowardly and brave, crude and graceful.
Lazy, depressed Josef and pretty, mild Marie Cizek are a childless couple living in a small Bohemian village ...