Jan Procházka — Playwright (6)

Movie

For Whom Havana Dances (1963)
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other title: Para quién baila La Habana / Для кого танцует Гавана
Five young Cubans, ex-revolutionaries, meet after years in Havana during a dancing carnival night.

Movie

The High Wall (1964)
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other title: Vysoká zeď
Jitka is a 12-year-old girl who feels the first stirring of love. She becomes friends with a young man who is hospitalized with paralysis. Jitka visits the man every day and witnesses his slow recovery, but she is unaware that she could have deeper feelings for him.

Movie

Marathon (1968)
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other title: Maratón
It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.