"Zelary"
2003
Directed by Ondrej Trojan

This sweeping romantic drama was the Czech submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2003. Set during the Nazi occupation of Czech lands, the film follows Eliska (Anna Geislerova), a young nurse who joins up with a secret resistance movement with her surgeon husband. He is discovered, however, and Eliska is forced to flee to a remote mountain cabin in the Moravian village of Zelary with a patient whose life she saved (Gyorgy Cserhalmi). With a mixture of regret, fear, suspicion, and eventually love, Eliska waits out the war in a setting that is alien to her. "A film that provides all the old-fashioned pleasures and satisfactions of a Victorian triple-decker" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times). In Czech with English subtitles.  150 minutes.