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Czechoslovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them, law student Pavel, is more attracted to film than to law. With his eight-millimeter camera, he films everything that catches his attention. One day he captures an interesting face on film, a girl with an air of mystery. Pavel visits the girl, whose name is Helena, and meets hers and her elder energetic sister Olga. From Olga, he learns that the girls have spent the years of German occupation in a concentration camp and cannot forget the horrors they have lived through.Read moreLess
It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them, law student Pavel, is more attracted to film than to law. With his eight-millimeter camera, he films everything that catches his attention. One day he captures an interesting face on film, a girl with an air of mystery. Pavel visits the girl, whose name is Helena, and meets hers and her elder energetic sister Olga. From Olga, he learns that the girls have spent the years of German occupation in a concentration camp and cannot forget the horrors they have lived through.
The story
It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them, law student Pavel, is more attracted to film than to law. With his eight-millimeter camera, he films everything that catches his attention. One day he captures an interesting face on film, a girl with an air of mystery. Pavel visits the girl, whose name is Helena, and meets hers and her elder energetic sister Olga. From Olga, he learns that the girls have spent the years of German occupation in a concentration camp and cannot forget the horrors they have lived through.
Cast & crew
Marta VančurováHelena Poláková
Viktor PreissPavel Krouza
Libuše ŠvormováOlga
Petr SvojtkaEvžen
Jana ŠvandováJana
Ota SklenčkaDirector
Bedřich ProkošProfessor
Jiří KodetAssistant
Jan TeplýYoung Man
Naďa KonvalinkováJarmila
Jitka SmutnáZdena
Jitka ZelenohorskáJitkaExplore the crew
- Director
- Jaroslav Balík
- Director of Photography
- Jan Čuřík
- Screenplay
- Jan Otčenášek
- Screenplay
- Jaroslav Balík
- Editor
- Jiřina Lukešová
- Original Music Composer
- Karel Mareš