“With childlike courage and a sense of justice”
War films can profile themselves with bloody trenches and crackling mortar fire. But they can also bet on respectable solidity, telling a story of young camaraderie. In SECRET DELIVERY, a group of children tries to keep a war victim – a downed French pilot – out of the hands of the German occupying forces. Their actions resemble the principle of the well-known ‘telephone game’ – the pilot is passed between mountain villages like a secret message, while the young rescuers are being chased by German soldiers. They must outwit traitors and survive the harsh conditions of winter in the mountains. In the hands of director Ján Sebechlebský, SECRET DELIVERY became a solid historical narrative.