Želary [videorecording] / a Sony Pictures Classics release produced by Total Helpart T.H.A. [and] Barrandov Studio [in cooperation with] Česká Televize, Dor Film, VE Spolupráci S ORF, Alef Film & Media Group, ve filmu Ondřeje Trojana ; producenti, Ondřej Trojan, Helena Uldrichová ; scenář, Petr Jarchovský ; directed by Ondřeje Trojana.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Based on the novella "Jozova hanule" by Květy Legátové. Special features: deleted scenes; travel for Oscar featurette; making-of 'Želary'. Aña Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan, Jan Hrusísnský, Miroslav Donutil, Jaroslav Duǰek, Iva Bittová, Jaroslava Adamová, Ondrej Kovac, Juraj Hrčka, Michael Hofbauer, Imre Borároš, Reinhard Simonischek, František Velecký, Edita Malovcic, Tomáš Žatečka, Anička Veřtelářová, Jan Tříska.
Summary:
During WWII, nurse Eliška is part of a secret resistance movement with her lover, surgeon Richard. When he is discovered, she is forced to leave the hospital in order to hide from the Nazis as well. A sympathetic colleague sends her off with a patient whose life she saved, to the remote Moravian mountain village of Želary, where time has stopped, as he has agreed to hide her as his wife. They live in a modest cabin for two years, waiting for the Nazi occupation to end and begin to form a bond despite their differences.
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