Summary
The fates of two people, who see the world from different perspectives, unexpectedly collide when young screenwriter František meets the author Olga Machová. Her successful autobiographical short story is meant to serve as the basis for a forthcoming film which František is to work on, but they don’t see eye to eye – at first. The bohemian screenwriter is an eternally disgruntled sceptic whilst the aging author is an optimist with an unshakable communist worldview, despite the tragic past. The intimate get-together between the disparate duo provides screenwriter and director Antonín Máša with his basis for this 1968 psychological drama. Looking back, it proves to be a bridge between 1940s and 1950s retrospectives and the then contemporary late 1960s. Petr Čepek and Jiřina Třebická star in this thought-provoking film.
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