Romeo, Juliet and Darkness is a Czech

Czech language

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Jiří Weiss. It was released in 1960. The film deals with the problems of young jewish woman hidden from the Gestapo by his student lover.

Reception

Winner of the Golden Seashell at the 1960 San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 1960 Taormina International Film Festival.