Lovers in the Year One

Czechoslovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974

Lovers in the Year One — Plot

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.

• Release date
• March 15, 1974
• Runtime
• 95 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance
• Director
• Jaroslav Balík

Lovers in the Year One — Cast

Marta Vančurová Helena Poláková Viktor Preiss Pavel Krouza Libuše Švormová Olga Petr Svojtka Evžen Jana Švandová Jana Ota Sklenčka Director Bedřich Prokoš Professor Jiří Kodet Assistant