A film based on the play by Jaroslava Moserova.
Starring Christine Channer and Jiri Datel Novotny.
The film is based on the events surrounding Jan Palach. (Jan Palach (11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969; Czech pronunciation: [jan ˈpalax]) was a Czech student of history and political economy at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation was a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies.) The central character in the film, a nurse at the burns centre in Prague, wrote a letter to her brother, who had left some years earlier for Australia. She never sent the letter. It reveals something of the struggle faced by all who lived in Czechoslovakia during those years following the Soviet invasion in 1968.
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