Overview

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…

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Cast

Jonas Chernick

Nathan Zuckerman

Kseniya Rappoport

Olga

Pavel Kříž

Rudolf Bolotka

Klára Issová

Eva Kalinová

Jiří Havelka

Sisovský

Miroslav Táborský

Martin Stránský

Jan Hrušínský

Blecha

Petr Vondráček

David Sir

Hotel receptionist