Zelary

Reviews:

Los Angeles Times
“Full of surprisingly emotional moments” More


Awards:

- Academy Award Nominee Best Foreign Language Film (2003)


Synopsis:

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of the resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife. At once epic and intimate, Zelary matches a resilient urban woman with a compassionate rural man in the spectacular Moravian countryside.


Film Details:

Country of Origin: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria 2003
Original Language: Czech, Russian, German
Running Time: 150 min

Director/Producer: Ondrej Trojan
Writer: Petr Jarchovský (Based on the novel “Jozova Hanule” by Kveta Legatova)


Cast:

Eliska/Hana  - Anna Geislerová
Joza  - György Cserhalmi

Lucka - Jaroslava Adamová
Priest - Miroslav Donutil
Teacher Tkác - Jaroslav Dusek


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