Last weekend, the film also opened an associated season of Czech Cinema and the Holocaust, also at the Imperial War Museum, which continues throughout June. The plot of this cinematic work of art is very personal. Radok was himself imprisoned in the last months of the war in the detention camp of Klettendorf near Wroc aw, from which he managed to escape. Dalek cesta was his first film, started only three years after the tragic events of the Holocaust that affected his family so much. At that time, however, this freedom was already limited by new censorship and this fact influenced the final shape of the film.
Many levels Dalek cesta has a strange and complex narrative structure on three levels.
The second part of the film is set in Terez n, and a third narrative level is provided by documentary excerpts that link certain sections of the film. It starts when Hana is dismissed from her position. The action shifts to Terez n, a small town about 60 km from Prague, when Hana's family and then Hana herself is transported there. Terez n was originally a military town fortress with an enclosing high red-brown brick wall. It was constructed during the reign of the Austrian emperor Joseph II between 1780 and 1790, although the historical irony is that this fortress served a purpose only during the Nazi's occupation of Czechoslovakia.