- An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War. The old woman is suspicious at first but then lets him stay. The townspeople begin to talk but he wins them over even if they feel he does not look like the…
- Criticism of the system tended to be oblique prior to 1968, when the reform Communism of the Prague Spring effectively abolished censorship but continued to fund its filmmakers. Nonetheless, there were some powerful works even before this. A director of the older generation, Ladislav Helge (b. 1927), made some strong i…