The Silent Village

A film in memory of Lidice, a Czech mining village razed to the ground by the Nazis in reprisal for the murder of Reinhard Heydrich, acting Reich-Protector of Bohemia-Moravia, by two Czech agents. Jennings transfers the story of this massacre of a hundred and seventy-three men to Wales, setting it in a similar working-class village, Cwmgiedd. The villagers closely identified with the tragedy and successfully transposed and re-enacted it within a British context.