A pátý jezdec je Strach

For many, this is the central work in Brynych's oeuvre: a "deadly serious Tati film" (Dominik Graf), boldly and disturbingly directed, produced by Carlo Ponti and with one eye on the international market, this visionary examination of the Holocaust and the German occupation. The latter has banned the Jewish doctor Dr Braun from working. He now works inconspicuously in a warehouse, where he catalogues mountains of aryanised property. He becomes increasingly anxious and his surroundings seem more and more suspicious - then neighbours knock on his door with a wounded resistance fighter in tow, whose life he is supposed to save. He embarks on a nightmarish odyssey through the city in order to find a piece of himself again.