Higher Principle
During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
- Year: 1960
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Filmové studio Barrandov
- Keyword: world war ii, based on short story, anti-nazi resistance
- Director: Jiří Krejčík
- Cast: František Smolík, Jana Brejchová, Ivan Mistrík, Jan Šmíd, Alexandr Postler, Petr Kostka