An epic tale of love, courage and the will to survive.

Two very different people meet and fall in love in ZELARY, the Oscar-nominated romantic epic from director Ondrej Trojan. Eliska (Ana Geislerova), a sophisticated medical student, first meets Joza (Gyorgy Cserhalmi) at a Prague hospital, where her blood saves the injured sawmill worker's life. But Eliska also works with the Czech resistance and when she's betrayed to the Gestapo, Joza agrees to hide the young woman in his remote mountain village of Zelary. Forced to marry the rough-hewn peasant and pose as his wife, Eliska is at first defiant and angry. But with the passing of time, she comes to realize that there's more to Joza than first meets the eye. And so, even the war rages around them, Eliska and Joza soon find themselves deeply and passionately in love, until an unexpected twist of fate threatens to put their extraordinary romance to the ultimate test.

Synopsis

It is the 1940s and the Czech lands have been occupied by the Nazis. Eliska is a young woman who was unable to complete medical school because the Germans closed the universities and now works as a nurse in a city hospital. She is also involved in the resistance movement along with her lover. One night a man comes into the hospital with serious injuries and desperately needs a blood transfusion. Eliska is the only one with the same blood type. Her blood saves his life and a connection is formed.Zelary tells the story of a clash between two different worlds and two different people. It is the story of an extraordinary relationship of fear, misgivings, suspicion and love: a love born of the common will to survive.