Current Affairs Zelary - based on Kveta Legatova's acclaimed novel Jozova Hanule - nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar
As the Academy Awards loom the Czech Republic once again finds itself rooting for one of its own - Ondrej Trojan - the director of Zelary - who brought a cycle of stories by writer Kveta Legatova to the big screen. The story, set in the rugged mountainous Walachia region of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II, brings together characters from opposite social backgrounds. The male lead, the role of a blacksmith played by Gyorgy Cserhalmi, is wounded and brought to hospital where Anna Geislerova, a nurse in the resistance tries to save him. Against the odds they end up falling in love. If you think the film sounds like it has all the trappings of a moving wartime drama, mixing just the right set of emotions to walk off with the prize, you may very well be right.
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