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Lovers in the Year One

"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.

Top Cast

  • Marta Vančurová

    Marta Vančurová

    Helena Poláková

  • Viktor Preiss

    Viktor Preiss

    Pavel Krouza

  • Libuše Švormová

    Libuše Švormová

    Olga

  • Petr Svojtka

    Petr Svojtka

    Evžen

  • Jana Švandová

    Jana Švandová

    Jana

  • Ota Sklenčka

    Ota Sklenčka

    Director

  • Bedřich Prokoš

    Bedřich Prokoš

    Professor

  • Jiří Kodet

    Jiří Kodet

    Assistant

  • Jan Teplý

    Jan Teplý

    Young Man

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.

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