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Completed - ENGLISH, CZECH - Drama - 90 minutes

Log Line

Based on the Novel by Philip Roth

Year of production : 2019

Director(s) : Irena PAVLÁSKOVÁ
Writer(s) : Irena PAVLÁSKOVÁ, Philip ROTH
Cast : Ksenia RAPPOPORT, Jonas CHERNICK

Producer(s) : Michal KRÁČMER, Viktor SCHWARCZ

Synopsis

Based on the classic American Author Philip Roth’s novella and set in 1976, famous American writer Nathan Zuckerman (Roth‘s alter-ego), 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…

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Country(ies) : CZECH REPUBLIC


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