An Earthly Paradise For The Eyes (2009)

Original title

Zemský ráj to napohled

Directed by

Irena Pavlásková

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Czech Republic

Runtime

1h 54m

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A dissident family in Prague under Soviet-backed secret police surveillance between 1968 and 1977 tries to live a normal life. Their small acts of defiance and everyday struggles are watched from the shadows.

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What happens

An Earthly Paradise For The Eyes is an English title for the Czech comedy film Zemský ráj to na pohled, directed by Irena Pavlásková and released in 2009. It portrays the adventures of a dissident family and their friends while under observation by pro-Soviet secret police in Prague between 1968 and 1977, during the country's period of "normalization"—forced revocation of the legislation and customs of the reform period led by Alexander Dubček (1963/1967 – 1968). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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