Film

Lovers in the Year One

1974 · 1h 35m · Drama · Romance

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

IMDb

6.0

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.

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

Jan Teplý

Young Man

Naďa Konvalinková

Jarmila

Jitka Smutná

Zdena

Jitka Zelenohorská

Jitka

Zuzana Geislerová

Věra

Alena Kryštofková

Ivana

Michaela Mišková

Eva

Petr Pospíchal

Bob

• Jaroslav BalíkDirector · Screenplay
• Jan OtčenášekStory · Screenplay
• Jan ČuříkDirector of Photography
• Karel MarešOriginal Music Composer
• Jiřina LukešováEditor

Release date

March 15, 1974

Status

Released

Original language

Czech

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Drama, Romance