Lovers in the Year One backdrop

Lovers in the Year One 1974 Directed by Jaroslav Balík Milenci v roce jedna

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

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.

Production Country Czechoslovakia
Language Czech
Spoken Language Czech
Gneres Drama , Romance
Production Company Filmové studio Barrandov
Release Date 15 March 1974
95 mins