Directed by:
Irena PavláskováScreenplay:
Irena PavláskováCinematography:
Alexander ŠurkalaComposer:
Jiří ChlumeckýCast:
Jonas Chernick, Kseniya Rappoport, Pavel Kříž, Klára Issová, Jiří Havelka, Miroslav Táborský, Martin Stránský, Jan Hrušínský, Petr Vondráček, Viktor Dvořák (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
In 1976 a famous American writer Nathan Zuckerman is challenged by Czech immigrant Sisovsky who implores him to retrieve valuable manuscripts from communist Czechoslovakia. The writer accepts this dangerous mission, where his every step is observed by secret police. Once in Prague, he meets Sisovsky‘s flamboyant and wild ex-wife Olga who is in possession of the manuscripts. The evolving relationship between the hot-headed Olga and Nathan is a confrontation between two worlds - the repressed East and free West. But, Olga won‘t give up the manuscripts to Nathan so easily… (Moscow International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Jonas Chernick
Canada
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Kseniya Rappoport
Soviet Union
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Pavel Kříž
Czechoslovakia
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Klára Issová
Czechoslovakia
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Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV movie)
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Jiří Havelka
Czechoslovakia
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Suppressed (2023)
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Miroslav Táborský
Czechoslovakia
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Martin Stránský
Czechoslovakia
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Jan Hrušínský
Czechoslovakia
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Petr Vondráček
Czechoslovakia
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Viktor Dvořák
Czechoslovakia
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Jakub Wehrenberg
Czechoslovakia
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Juraj Ďurdiak
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Joe Weintraub
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Nicole J. Adelman
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Nancy Bishop
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Marcel Rošetzký
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Petr Motloch
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Pavel Slabý
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Evženie Pfeifferová
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Bronislav Kotiš
Czechoslovakia
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