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A singular drama of interpersonal relations in one of the most prominent 20th-century Czech artistic families generally perceived as epitomes of the “idyll” of the pre-WW II Czechoslovak Republic. A glimpse into the drama is provided by secret personal and travelling diaries of the painter and writer Josef Čapek´s wife Jarmila, full of devastating love as well as burning hatred. The records dating from the 1932-38 and 1945-47 periods testify to her remarkable inner transformation, starting with ordinary female disappointment stemming from marital life grown cool, and ending with a desperate search for her lost husband amongst the ruins of Nazi Germany. The film re-enacts a story of reawakened love and guilty conscience on the background of Europe ravaged by war.
HD | 56´ | © 2014
director(s): Josef Císařovský
producer(s): Czech Television, SYNERGIA FILM s.r.o.
scriptwriter(s): Josef Císařovský
director of photography: Michal Němec, Daniel Šperl
cast: Taťjana Medvecká, Anna Císařovská, Alexandr Rašilov and others
rights available: TV, Video, Internet
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English