Zelary
by Ondrej Trojan
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Actor: Anna Geislerov?, Gy?rgy Cserhalmi, Jaroslav Dusek, Jaroslava Adamov?, Miroslav DonutilDirector: Ondrej Trojan
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: Czech (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 148 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Zelary
Movie Review: Book to film . . .
Summary: 4 Stars
The length and complexity of this ambitious Czech film (exteriors were shot in Slovakia) reveal its literary origins as a novel about a young woman with connections to the Resistance who is whisked away into hiding during the Nazi occupation of Prague. She quickly must adjust to life in a mountain village far from the urbane milieu she has been used to. And she must also adjust to the villager whom she must marry in order to preserve her new identity. It's a romantic film (in the scale of David Lean) with sweeping vistas of mountain scenery in all seasons of the year, a large cast of supporting characters, and frequent reminders of the perilous state in which they all live, as the Nazi occupiers are continually searching out partisans and their sympathizers.
A smaller film would no doubt have focused more on the evolving relationship between the educated and thoroughly modern young woman and her much older sawmill worker of a husband, whose tentativeness with her (and need for a bath) account in part for the fact that he is still a bachelor in mid-life. The two leads provide some nuanced scenes marking the evolution of their relationship, but in an effort to portray more of the village life that's the context of their story, there is a host of other characters and subplots, many of them written in a kind of shorthand that verges on stereotype. So a viewer can often feel a step ahead of the film, anticipating what we've been set up to expect, and its 2.5 hour length can seem rather more than that.
Winner of many awards, it was not surprisingly nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Film in 2003 (the winner was Pedro Almodovar's "Talk To Her"). And it definitely rewards the viewing, particularly as it attempts to portray a way of life that the modern world in 1943 had left behind - and in the performances of its two leads, who make an improbable love affair confidently plausible. The DVD includes an informative "making of" featurette.
Summary of Zelary
Eliska a young nurse working at a hospital is carrying on a love affair with richard a surgeon. Theyre members of a secret resistance movement against the nazis. A love triangle ensues when a local resident needs a transfusion. As the gestapo closes in on them lives get lost and changed forever. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 148 minutes Rating: RArt House & International DVD Video
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