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Film about destruction of Czech village to be made
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-03-11 13:48

PRAGUE -- A film about Lidice, a Czech village which was completely destroyed by the Germans during World War II, will be made  by Czech director Alice Nellis this autumn, local media reported.

Producer Adam Dvorak said the film will "make a closer story to people, a love story in a certain way," instead of building "a historical, tragic monument" of the war.

Nellis has received 20 million crowns ($909,100) from the State Fund of Cinematography to support the total budget of 65 million crowns ($2.95 million).

The film will be produced in association with Poland, and is scheduled to be premiered in autumn next year.

Lidice, northwest of Prague, was destroyed by the Germans on June 10, 1942 in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi "protector" of Bohemia and Moravia.

All of the nearly 200 men in the village were murdered by the Germans in a much publicized atrocity. The rest of the population was sent to Nazi concentration camps, where many women and almost all the children died.