May Stars (1959) on Netflix

Plot summary

Prague, May 1945. Soviet troops enter the city and the residents greet them as the fighting ends. A general who has gone three nights without sleep travels in a Willys; his adjutant and driver fake a breakdown so he can rest in a nearby house. Demining teams finish their work but run out of chalk, and a lieutenant goes to a school for more, where he meets a young teacher. In one Prague building, a resident back from Auschwitz finds his attic flat held by a Sudeten German who fires at people in the street, and neighbors ask a T-34 crew for help. On the first post-war tram, a Soviet sergeant who drove trams before the war asks the Czech driver for his seat.