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Josef Urban

Born February 3, 1965 · Zábřeh, Czechoslovakia [now Czechia] (age 61)

Josef Urban is a graduate of Charles University, Faculty of Science, where he studied engineering geology and hydrogeology. The former national white-water kayak team member began writing after finishing the "Czech Rafting"an exploratory project mapping the deepest canyons on earth. The successful travelog, The Deepest Valley of the World, came into being in 1998. In the same year, Urban's first a…

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Seven Days of SinSeven Days of Sin · 2012
Seven Days of Sin
★ 6.32012
MovieDrama
This story actually happened in the region around the city of Sumperk in Jeseniky Mountains in May 1945. The disappearance of Agnes, the German wife of a Czech forester Jan Olsan is a dark mystery. She is the only one who knows who and for what reason is looking for her. It's the end of the war, times are bad and the Czechs are coming back from the inland to the frontier. The guards are forming and soldiers are coming. Fate brings together the outlaw Jan and his German brother-in-law Jurgen who has just returned from the eastern front line. Both men are looking for exactly the same woman and that is Agnes. But Agnes escaped; she is running away through the deep woods followed by the most powerful man of the county. Running away for what she had witnessed. The fatality of the relationship between Agnes and Jan can only be learned in the mountains on this thorny journey.
HabermannHabermann · 2010
Habermann
★ 5.92010
MovieWarDrama
A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.
Climbing ParadiseClimbing Paradise · 2016
Climbing Paradise
★ 3.92016
MovieDrama
The story of the dramatic fate of the Czech climber Josef speck and his comrades, executed by the Nazis in April 1945 in Theresienstadt.

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Seven Days of SinSeven Days of Sin · 2012
Seven Days of Sin
★ 6.32012
MovieDrama
This story actually happened in the region around the city of Sumperk in Jeseniky Mountains in May 1945. The disappearance of Agnes, the German wife of a Czech forester Jan Olsan is a dark mystery. She is the only one who knows who and for what reason is looking for her. It's the end of the war, times are bad and the Czechs are coming back from the inland to the frontier. The guards are forming and soldiers are coming. Fate brings together the outlaw Jan and his German brother-in-law Jurgen who has just returned from the eastern front line. Both men are looking for exactly the same woman and that is Agnes. But Agnes escaped; she is running away through the deep woods followed by the most powerful man of the county. Running away for what she had witnessed. The fatality of the relationship between Agnes and Jan can only be learned in the mountains on this thorny journey.

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