The Sun in a Net (1963)

Original title

Slnko v sieti

Directed by

Štefan Uher

Genre

drama film

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

U

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy and his blind girlfriend navigate their relationship during a summer holiday. The film follows their interactions and small conflicts against the backdrop of a lakeside resort.

introspectivemelancholicmeditativevisually poeticslow-burnatmosphericcerebralrestrained

What happens

The Sun in a Net (Slnko v sieti, also translated as Sunshine in a net or Catching the sun in a net) is a 1963 film that became a key film in the development of Slovak and Czechoslovak cinema from the mandated Socialist-Realist filmmaking of the repressive 1950s towards the Czechoslovak/Czech New Wave and socially critical or experimental films of the 1960s marked by a gradual relaxation of communist control. The Sun in a Net received multiple votes in a wide survey of Czech and Slovak film academics and critics in the late 1990s asking them for their lists of the 10 best films in the history of filmmaking in the former Czechoslovakia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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