Lovers in the Year One
5.9
“Czechoslovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974”
It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them, law student Pavel, is more attracted to film than to law. With his eight-millimeter camera, he films everything that catches his attention. One day he captures an interesting face on film, a girl with an air of mystery. Pavel visits the girl, whose name is Helena, and meets hers and her elder energetic sister Olga. From Olga, he learns that the girls have spent the years of German occupation in a concentration camp and cannot forget the horrors they have lived through.
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Cast
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Marta Vančurová
Helena Poláková
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Viktor Preiss
Pavel Krouza
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Libuše Švormová
Olga
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Byl jednou jeden dům
Kukačky
Petr Svojtka
Evžen
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Jana Švandová
Jana
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The Little Mermaid
Ota Sklenčka
Director
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Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
Bedřich Prokoš
Professor
Known for
Happy End
Jiří Kodet
Assistant
Known for
Cosy Dens
Morgiana
Jan Teplý
Young Man
Known for
The Ear
Naďa Konvalinková
Jarmila
Known for
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Jitka Smutná
Zdena
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Little Otik
Milada
Jitka Zelenohorská
Jitka
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Jaroslav Balík Director · Jan Otčenášek Screenplay Karel Mareš Composer
First release March 15, 1974 · Produced in XC · Original title Milenci v roce jedna
Production
Filmové studio Barrandov
Production
XC
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Languages
Original title
Milenci v roce jedna
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
XC · March 15, 1974
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No release date listed for United States.
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