Summary
This penultimate film from director Antonín Kachlík was inspired by a short story from writer Věra Sládková. The script adaptation, undertaken by the director with screenwriter Vladimír Bor, retains the book’s episodic structure. The story takes place shortly after the end of World War II in the north Moravian part of the Sudeten region. New Czech settlers arrive in place of the former German ones and try to build new, normal lives. But matters are made more difficult by the displaced Germans, especially Irma (Brigit Frohriepová), widow of an SS officer, who during the war sheltered her lover – the illusionist Liška (Martin Huba). This man, who undertakes modest attempts to put in a good word for his unwelcome German lover, is also the subject of another love interest – the pretty Julinka (Martina Gasparovičová), who is seeking a new, happier life in the Sudeten lands.
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