Sunday, July 27, 2008

Movie-Zelary

This 2003 Czech film was fantastic. Telling the story of a woman in the Czech underground during WW II, Zelary moves from the urban environment where she gathers information on Nazi moves to the rural countryside, where she has to flee as the German masters hone in on her group.

She goes to the countryside with a former patient, who she helped nurse back to health. He protects her, and to keep her identity secret, marries her. This man, not her ideal pick for a mate, is so kind to her and such a good man that she eventually truly falls in love with him. The Nazis never find her, but trouble comes from the "saviors", the Russians, as they start to invade the Czech countryside.

The movie is heart-warming and heart-breaking. It is wonderfully told, filmed and acted and one of the better films I have seen.

If you like foreign movies, this should be near the top of your list.

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