| A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova | |
| Director: | Antonín Moskalyk |
| Starring: | Jiří Adamíra Martin Růžek Lenka Fišerová |
| Music: | Luboš Fišer |
| Cinematography: | Jiří Kadaňka |
| Editing: | Jan Chaloupek |
| Runtime: | 67 minutes |
| Country: | Czechoslovakia |
| Language: | Czech |
A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova (Czech: '''Modlitba pro Kateřinu Horovitzovou''') is a 1965 Czech television film about a young Jewish woman during World War II. It is based on Arnošt Lustig's novel of the same name.[1]
It is an adaptation of Arnošt Lustig's short novel first published in 1964. Lustig's novel is inspired by two real stories, one about American Jewish businessmen captured in Europe and the other one about Franceska Mann.[2]
In 1943 a young Jewish woman Kateřina Horovitzová is placed in a group of wealthy Jewish men who bribe the Nazis in order to be exchanged to USA for captured SS officers.