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The title refers to the Czech village of Lidice which was razed to the ground by the Nazis the male inhabitants were murdered, women and children thrown into concentration camps. In order to tell this dramatic story, Humphrey Jennings chose as location the Welsh mining village Cwmgiedd and he allowed the local population to play […]