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.
Jaroslav Balík
Director
Marta Vančurová
Helena Poláková
Viktor Preiss
Pavel Krouza
Libuše Švormová
Olga
Petr Svojtka
Evžen
Jana Švandová
Jana
Ota Sklenčka
Director
Bedřich Prokoš
Professor
Jiří Kodet
Assistant
Jan Teplý
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Ashes in the Snow64%
Maria's Lovers60%
Not Easily Broken63%
Forever First Love70%
See You Soon59%
Fire with Fire62%
Gabriel's Inferno: Part III83%
The Best of Me74%
Gabriel's Inferno83%
Girl in the Box67%
Newness60%
Blind61%
Wander Darkly60%
The Magic of Ordinary Days73%
Gabriel's Redemption: Part I72%
Love Everlasting73%
The Yellow Handkerchief62%
Racing with the Moon62%
Nine Lives61%
