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4 September 2003 (Czech Republic)
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A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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An urban sophisticate in rural Czechosloakia
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Anna Geislerová | ... | Eliska / Hana |
| György Cserhalmi | ... | Joza |
| Jaroslava Adamová | ... | Lucka |
| Miroslav Donutil | ... | Priest |
| Jaroslav Dusek | ... | Teacher Tkác |
| Iva Bittová | ... | Zena |
| Ivan Trojan | ... | Richard |
| Jan Hrusínský | ... | Slávek |
| Anna Vertelárová | ... | Helenka |
| Tomás Zatecka | ... | Lipka |
| Ondrej Koval | ... | Michal Kutina |
| Tatiana Vajdová | ... | Anna Kutinová |
| Frantisek Velecký | ... | Old Kutina |
| Viera Pavlíková | ... | Old Kutinová |
| Juraj Hrcka | ... | Vojta Juriga |
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Rated R for violence and some sexual content.
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Czech Republic:150 min | USA:150 min | Canada:142 min (Ontario) | Argentina:150 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Canada:14A (Ontario) |
Argentina:13 |
Finland:K-15 (TV rating) (self applied) |
Czech Republic:U |
Slovakia:12 |
USA:R |
Australia:M
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Continuity: When Hana and Joza go to visit his mother's grave she is wearing a different dress as they return home.
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Featured in The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004) (TV)
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Zakázané ovoce
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Zelary (2003), directed by Ondrej Trojan, is an variation on the theme of a person thrown into an environment for which he or she is not prepared. In this case, the protagonist Eliska (Anna Geislerová) is a beautiful, sophisticated nurse in Prague during the German occupation. Forced to escape from Prague, Eliska finds herself in a remote Czech farming village.
In this setting, her urban knowledge and social skills are inadequate for survival. Predictably, her basic intelligence and her nursing experience do, indeed prove useful. However, without help from the people in the community, she can't possibly survive. Whether her abilities--and the assistance of the villagers--will prove adequate to ensure survival is the question around which the plot revolves.
The weakness of the film is that Eliska's transition into her role as the wife of a farmer is far from adequate. Anna Geislerová is so refined and elegant that it would have taken more than two long braids to fool the Germans (or anyone else).
Still, the concept is interesting, and the film does well in conveying the complexities and difficulties that confront a stranger in an apparently tranquil rural community.