A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.
Cinematography
Czech mountains shot like another century entirely.
Acting
Geislerová's transformation from city mouse to mountain wife.
Production
Village built from scratch, no electricity allowed on set.
Director
Ondřej Trojan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on actual WWII resistance memoirs; many Czech women did hide in remote villages, though rarely with this much romantic tension.
CZ
