Movies like Zelary
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Zelary (2003)
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Original name: Želary
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, sexy, epic, sentimental, romantic, feel good, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, redemption, small town, marriage, betrayal, self discovery, older man younger woman relationship, life is a bitch, couple relations, society, resistance, hopes, fugitives, farm, husband wife relationship, secret, nurse, secrets, sexual abuse, nazi, teacher, hospital, runaway, countryside, war ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century, 40s
Place:
germany, prague, czechoslovakia, central europe, prague czechoslovakia
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Duration: 110 min.
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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