Wickedly funny movie. Be sure to read between the lines on this one, the Nazi's were used as the bad guys, but I don't think the Nazi's were who the writer/director had in mind when this was filmed during the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.
shareNot sure it’s that simple, for Czech film makers tend to be subtle.
We don’t see any Germans being particularly nasty in the film, do we? Actually it is the quisling Zednicek, though grimly comic, who is most repulsive. To me this suggests that the main target of the satire is not any distant masters in Berlin but the local bureaucracy of collaborators against whom the ordinary people in their different ways struggle.
If we change the scene to 1966, when the film was made, the restored and independent republic of Czechoslovakia was not in fact occupied by any foreign troops as you suggest. It was however under a communist regime that took its ultimate orders from Moscow. And as in 1944 what oppressed the population was joyless functionaries mouthing idiotic mantras.
"It was however under a communist regime that took its ultimate orders from Moscow."
-That was my general point, Moscow was (the man behind the curtain) pulling the strings. I'm sorry for not being more clear.