Drama|2003|CZ/SK/A|142 min
Director: Ondřej Trojan
Starring: Aňa Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan, Jaroslava Adamová, Zita Kabátová, Svatopluk Beneš, Miroslav Donutil, Jaroslav Dušek, Jan Tříska, Michael Hofbauer, Jan Hrušínský, Anna Věrtelářová, František Velecký, Viera Pavlíková, Iva Bittová, Tomáš Žatečka,
1940s and the Czech lands have been occupied by the Nazis. Eliška is a young woman who was unable tocomplete medical school the Germans closed the universities and now works as a nurse in a city hospital. She is also involved in the resistance movement along with her lover, the surgeon Richard, and their friend Dr. Chládek.
One night, a man from a rural mountain area is brought to the hospital with serious injuries and desperately needs a transfusion. Eliška is the only one with the same blood type. Her blood saves his life and a connection is formed between the two that in the course of the story becomes an extraordinarily strong relationship between the modern, cosmopolitan, and educated Eliška and the barbaric, salt of the earth man with the soul of a child, Joza.
WITH ENGL. SUBTITLES