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| Directed by | Ondřej Trojan |
| Written by | Květa Legátová (novel) Petr Jarchovský |
| Starring | Anna Geislerová György Cserhalmi |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics USA, Falcon Czech Republic |
| Release date(s) | September 4, 2003 |
| Running time | 150 min. |
| Country | Czech Republic / Slovakia |
| Language | Czech, Russian, German, English |
Želary is a 2003 Czech/Slovak film directed by Ondřej Trojan, starring Anna Geislerová. The movie received a 2004 Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. It was produced by Barrandov Studios in Prague.
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The story begins in 1942, at the time where Europe was going through one of the worst moments of World War II. The Germans are throughout Europe and the Gestapo is the instrument to eliminate the people that are working in the resistance. When a young resistance worker and medical student, Eliška, is on the brink of arrest, she is given new identity papers and sent to the country to marry a sawmill worker who has been in the hospital recovering from a near-fatal accident. They must learn to function as man and wife and confront difficulties from the German occupation, the village thug, and, worst of all, the brutal Red Army "liberators."
The film was mostly shot on location in the Malá Fatra mountains in the Northwest region of the Slovak Republic.
| Actor | Role |
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| Anna Geislerová | Eliška/Hana |
| György Cserhalmi | Joza |
| Jaroslava Adamová | Lucka |
| Miroslav Donutil | priest |
| Jaroslav Dušek | teacher Tkáč |
| Iva Bittová | Žeňa |
| Ivan Trojan | Richard |
| Jan Hrušínský | Slávek |
| Anna Vertelárová | Helenka |
| Tomás Zatecka | Lipka |
| Ondřej Koval | Michal Kutina |
| Tatiana Vajdová | Anna Kutinová |
| František Velecký | old Kutina |
| Viera Pavlíková | old Kutinová |
| Juraj Hrčka | Vojta Juriga |
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