Distant Journey (Czech: Daleká cesta) is a Czechoslovakian Holocaust film directed by Alfréd Radok and released in 1949, not long after World War II.

Radok never shows blood or lets a gun fire in his story, but the historic footage he integrates into the film achieves a sense of terror.

Newsreel footage and clips from Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will show Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, and other Nazi leaders reading speeches while a pile of dead nude bodies on the grounds of a concentration camp enforce the atmosphere of the Holocaust.

For example, when a minor character, Professor Reiter, commits suicide, strange camera angles show the old man sitting in his apartment, his open window, the cobblestone street far below, and the stopped hands on a clock.

In the Village Voice J. Hoberman called it a "masterpiece", comparing Radok to Orson Welles[2] New York Times critic Bosley Crowther described it as "the most brilliant, the most horrifying film on the Nazi's persecution of the Jews that this reviewer has yet seen".