Lovers in the Year One (1974)

  • NR
  • 03/15/1974 (XC)
  • Drama, Romance
  • 1h 35m

Czechoslovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974

Overview

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.

Jaroslav Balík

Director, Screenplay

Jan Otčenášek

Story, Screenplay

Cast

Marta Vančurová's headshot

Marta Vančurová

Helena Poláková
Viktor Preiss's headshot

Viktor Preiss

Pavel Krouza
Libuše Švormová's headshot

Libuše Švormová

Olga
Petr Svojtka's headshot

Petr Svojtka

Evžen
Jana Švandová's headshot

Jana Švandová

Jana
Ota Sklenčka's headshot

Ota Sklenčka

Director
Bedřich Prokoš's headshot

Bedřich Prokoš

Professor
Jiří Kodet's headshot

Jiří Kodet

Assistant

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