The read
It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
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…
Ratings
IMDb4.8/10
11 audience votes
Key crew
- Irena PavláskováScreenplay
- Irena PavláskováDirector
Cast
- Jonas ChernickNathan Zuckerman
- Kseniya RappoportOlga
- Pavel KřížRudolf Bolotka
- Klára IssováEva Kalinová
- Jiří HavelkaSisovský
- Miroslav TáborskýCast
- Martin StránskýCast
- Jan HrušínskýBlecha
- Petr VondráčekCast
- David SirHotel receptionist
- Alexander ŠurkalaCNN cameraman
- Markéta GaluszkováCast