The first Czechoslovak post-war story about the Holocaust was filmed by the famous theater director Alfréd Radok and is considered by many critics and historians to be one of the best feature films ever made on our territory. It went into the vault almost immediately and had a renewed premiere only in 1991 on television, in 1997 its only 35mm copy was shown in Czech cinemas, and in 2019 it was restored and digitized. He surpassed the Czechoslovak new wave in almost everything – innovative formal solutions, almost experimental montage, atypical camera work, disturbing music and an original narrative strategy, all of which guaranteed Dáleka cste an extraordinary success in Western Europe and in the USA, where it was shown in the late 1940s. Alfréd Radok emigrated to Sweden in 1968, the film's co-screenwriter (and excellent film theorist) Mojmír Drvota emigrated to the USA in 1957.