DVD | Zelary

It’s 1943 in the Nazi occupied Prague. Eliska is a nurse who was unable to finish medical school because the Nazi’s closed the universities. She’s in a relationship with one of the hospitals surgeons, and she’s a courier for the resistance.

All is going well for young Eliska, until the Gestapo captures one of the local resistance members. Eliska is sent away to the moutain hamlet of Zelary with Joza, a local resident who’s life was recently saved by Eliska. They marry out of convenience, so as to give city girl Eliska a valid reason to move to Zelary and to be accepted by the locals.

But all is not well, as the city girl has to come to terms with life in a little mountain shack with no electricity and only one bed.

But predictable as it is, Eliska falls in love with Joza, and she even finds acceptance in the local community.

Zelary is a spellbinding romantic tale, that avoids all the glitz and glamour of Hollywood.

Personal Thoughts
It’s not clear why Eliska joined the resistance, but it seems it’s more of a game to her, that is until she has to be bundled away for her own safety. She has to leave everything behind and start life afresh as a poor country girl with none of the luxuries she was accustomed to. While it’s a struggle at first, she soon accepts what she has and in due course finds life to the fullest. A life that is much more rewarding that when she was surrounded by luxury.

It gets you thinking about what we might be missing out on in our nice consumer driven society. How much more rewarding a simple, no frills community focused life could be.