Summaries

Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's female author, a University professor and writer named Olga Machová (Jirina Trebická), approximately ten-years-older than him. In the beginning, they do not understand each other at all. Frantisek is a skeptic experiencing a moral crisis, unsatisfied with both his work and his private life - he lives separated from his wife and has no deeper feelings for his numerous lovers. He even gets drunk from time to time and breaks the public peace. Olga is lonesome, too, but considers her life fulfilled.—NFA.cz

Details

Keywords
  • one word title
  • writer
  • central europe
  • writer as protagonist
  • older woman younger man relationship
Genres
  • Drama
Release date Jan 2, 1969
Countries of origin Czechoslovakia
Language Czech
Production companies Filmové studio Barrandov

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 33m
Color Black and White
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1

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