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MPAA Rating - PG13

Length:
    122 Minutes

Genre:
    Comedy Drama

Original Release Date:
    Nov 27, 2001

Director
    Jan Hrebejk

Cast
    Csongor Kassai, Anna Siskova, Boleslav Polívka, Jaroslav Dusek, Jiri Pecha

 
Movie Summary
A man and a woman battle with deceit and infidelity as they struggle to survive Hitlers fascist regime in this period drama. Marie and Josef Cizek (Anna Siskova and Boleslav Polivka) are a couple living in a small Czechoslovakian village during the Nazi occupation of World War II. Marie and Josefs marriage is showing signs of strain as a result of the political tensions surrounding them, as well as frustrations over their inability to have children due to Josefs sterility. When a neighboring Jewish family is deported and sent to Theresenstadt, their teenage son David (Csongor Kassai) manages to escape, and the Cizeks warily agree to hide him in their home. An acquaintance of the couple, Horst Prohazka (Jaroslav Dusek), has become a Nazi collaborator and a minor local functionary with the party; hes never made a secret of his interest in Marie, and he now uses his new authority to pay a number of uninvited visits to the Cizeks modest home. Marie and Josef begin to suspect that Horst knows theyre hiding David, so when Horst asks the couple to board a Nazi clerk (Martin Huba) in their spare bedroom, they have to quickly fabricate a plausible excuse to keep him away. Marie tells Horst they need the spare room as a nursery, because they will soon be expecting a baby. Now, in order to make the lie real, Marie must convince David to impregnate her; this will keep the Nazis at bay and allow her to have the baby shes wanted, but it drives an even deeper wedge between herself and Josef. Musime Si Pomahat received its North American premiere at the 2000 Montreal World Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide


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