A horny, dangerous scavenger hunt through communist Prague where literature is contraband and trust is extinct.
In 1976 a famous American writer Nathan Zuckerman is challenged by Czech immigrant Sisovsky who implores him to retrieve valuable manuscripts from communist Czechoslovakia. The writer accepts this dangerous mission, where his every step is observed by secret police. Once in Prague, he meets Sisovsky‘s flamboyant and wild ex-wife Olga who is in possession of the manuscripts. The evolving relationship between the hot-headed Olga and Nathan is a confrontation between two worlds - the repressed East and free West. But, Olga won‘t give up the manuscripts to Nathan so easily…
Acting
Rappoport's Olga — chaotic, magnetic, terrifyingly alive.
Production
Grimy period Prague locations you can practically smell.
Director
Irena Pavlásková
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Philip Roth's 1985 novella, the final of his Zuckerman Bound trilogy. Roth famously hated adaptations of his work.
Director Pavlásková is a former dissident who smuggled samizdat herself; this is her revenge on every clueless Western 'rescuer.'
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