Zelary
Time Out says
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.
Details
Release details
Duration:
150 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Ondrej Trojan
Cast:
Anna Geislerová
György Cserhalmi
Jaroslava Adamová
Miroslav Donutil
Jaroslav Dusek
György Cserhalmi
Jaroslava Adamová
Miroslav Donutil
Jaroslav Dusek