Czech feature film, situated in World War II, tells the story of a clash between two different worlds and two different people: a nurse who is part of the resistance, and a simple mountain man.
Dramatic feature film about a clash between two different worlds and two different people. Eliska, a nurse, and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in Czechoslovakia in the 1940s. When they are discovered, Eliska's lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her. Eliska is forced to leave her urban life and become Hana, the wife of a mountain man.
Nominated for the Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film in 2004 and screened at the Netherlands Film Festival 2004 as part of the section West Sees East.
Credits
Director
Producer
Co-producer
Executive producer
Scenario
Camera
Production Design
Set geluid
Montage
Muziek
Production company
TotalHelpArt T.H.A Filmcompany
NFF Archive
You are now in the NFF Archive. The archive contains contains information on film, TV and interactive productions that were screened at past festival editions. The NFF does not dispose of this material. For this, please contact the producer, distributor or broadcaster. Sometimes, older films can also be found at the Eye Film Museum or the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
Stills
