Lidice (2011)

I watched this Czech movie about the German massacre of Lidice, Czechoslovakia in 1942 and have to say I don't think this film did that massacre justice. The movie focuses on a man who had an affair, killed one of his sons and spent most of the war in a Czech prison. He was Lidice, but wasn't killed as he was still serving time. It also follows another married man who lies to a woman that he is in the Czech Resistance so he can make her love him. The movie should have focused more on the innocent men, women and children before, during and after the massacre. What the Germans did in Lidice was nothing less than war crime and by portraying the events surrounded around a father who killed his son cheapens what the Germans did. You are meant to feel sorry for the murderer rather than his friends and family (his other son was murdered by the Germans and his disabled wife died in a concentration camp.) The story of the people of Lidice needs to be told, but in a way that focuses on the innocent and not real criminals.