Who is Milena whose arrival is announced to Sophie and Nicolas by postcard? The train from Prague brings for three weeks, the time of a visa, this young Czech and his bag stuffed with forbidden texts, marginal films and music. She will strive to make them known with the help of her new friends.
Acting
Michal Bat-Adam's magnetic presence as the dangerous idealist Milena.
Direction
Jaeggi's delicate balance of political tension and intimate domesticity.
Production
1979 Paris recreated as a haven for smuggled Czech culture.
Director
Danielle Jaeggi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Charter 77's aftermath, the film captures a precise moment when French intellectuals romanticized Czech dissidents before realizing the horror of normalized oppression.
Danielle Jaeggi was one of only three women directing feature films in France that year; she never made another movie after 1982.
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