Pramen zivota (Spring of Life)

Milan Cieslar directed this war drama based on an actual Nazi project to groom young Aryan women for breeding. Soon after the Sudetenland is ceded to Germany, Gretka aces a ‘biological race examination’ and is sent to the idyllic Isolde Spa. There she, along with fresh-faced lasses, endures a strict social and physical training routine, though the reason behind the regimen does not become clear until a band of lecherous SS officers show up. (Jonathan Crow)