Summary
Close ties between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union are reflected in this ideologically coloured romantic drama that follows a Soviet engineer on his trip to Prague to assist local colleagues in the construction of metro tunnels. The top-tier expert, Vladimir Kuznetsov, had last been in the city 30 years earlier as a Red Army soldier – a liberator. Though seriously wounded, he had also had a passionate wartime love affair with a Czech teacher named Věra. The likeable Russian is accompanied on his walks though the city (and down memory lane) by Lenka, a Metrostav secretary… In the lead role of this 1978 film directed by Ladislav Rychman was the popular Soviet actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov, known for the film Májové hvězdy (May Stars, 1959), the mini-series Vojna a mír (War and Peace, 1965–7) and the TV series Sedmnáct zastavení jara (Seventeen Moments of Spring, 1976). Jelena Šebestová plays Lenka and Jaroslava Schallerová performs the role of Věra.
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