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Želary(Movie, 2003)

2h 30min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love
ŽelaryRating: 3.6/5 (with 1919 votes)
Želary is a 2003 Czech/Slovak film directed by Ondřej Trojan and starring Anna Geislerová. The film received a 2004 Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. It was produced by Barrandov Studios in Prague. The film is adapted from two works by Czech novelist Květa Legátová - "Želary", a collection of short stories published in 2001, and her 2002 book, "Jozova Hanule". ()
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Awards & Nominations for Želary

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

About Želary

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.

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Additional Information

Official websites:
www.zelary.com
Production countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Plays in: Czechoslovakia
Original language: Czech (CS)
Spoken languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), Russian (RU)
Translated into 12 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Hungarian (HU), Korean (KO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 09/17/2004 (World premiere: 09/04/2003)
Cast: Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Jaroslava Adamová, Miroslav Donutil, Ivan Trojan, Ondrej Kovaľ, Iva Bittová, Jan Hrušínský, Jaroslav Dušek, František Velecký, Jan Tříska, Michael Hofbauer, Svatopluk Beneš, Zita Kabátová, Madita, Jana Oľhová, Ondřej Trojan, Miroslav Táborský, Miriam Kantorková, Boráros Imre, Martin Zbrožek, Kateřina Liďáková, Jurij Galin, Adrian Jastraban, Juraj Hrcka, Marián Filadelfi, Michal Hudák, Peter Varga, Reinhard Simonischek, Gabriela Schmoll, Zdeněk Sedláček, Wolfram Rupperti, Jakub Laurych, Viera Pavlíková, René Šmotek, Igor Latta, Sergej Hudák, Petr Hübner, Pavel Pafko, Trude Ackermann, Ondra Dorian
Director: Ondřej Trojan
Producer: Ondřej Trojan, Helena Uldrichová
Screenwriter: Petr Jarchovský, Květa Legátová
Film Editor: Vladimír Barák
Director of Photography: Asen Šopov
Composer: Petr Ostrouchov
Costume designer: Katarína Štrbová-Bieliková
Production Designer: Milan Býček
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Erotas sto Zelari"
"Erotas sto Zelary"
"Erwtas sto Zelari"
"Erwtas sto Zelary"

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