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Zelary (2003)
Director: Ondrej Trojan
Movie review
From Time Out New York
This tale of courage and country living circa WWII is the sort of typically anemic import that tends to clog the Academy Awards' Foreign Language Film category (unsurprisingly, it was one such nominee for 2003). Director Ondrej Trojan seems to feel duty bound to deliver at least one minor catastrophe per reel, putting his actress through the typical masochistic paces—lovers leave, rapists lurk, lives are needlessly lost—that have fueled such oh-the-inhumanity fare for decades. The rote assembly-line feel and mawkishly coddling coda atrophy into a drawn-out marathon of misery that seems endless and, eventually, rather empty.Author: DF
Time Out New York Website
Cast & crew
Director: Ondrej Trojan
Cast: Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Jaroslava Adamová, Miroslav Donutil, Jaroslav Dusek
Duration: 150 mins
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