Štefan Uher's exquisite groundbreaking feature is consistently ranked among the greatest films in the history of Czechoslovak cinema and is cited as the film that kick-started the whole 'Czechoslovak New Wave' movement. Bringing to the screen a number of hitherto unacceptable social and political themes The Sun in a Net is a complex interplay of sunlight and darkness sound and silence vision and blindness truth and lies. We are delighted to bring this masterpiece of East European cinema to UK audiences for the very first time. Special Features: New... HD master Booklet essay by Peter Hames New filmed appreciation by filmmaker Peter Strickland [show more]
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Czech New Wave drama directed by Stefan Uher. The film follows the relationship between Bela (Jana Beláková) and Fajolo (Marián Bielik) and their dysfunctional home lives. Although the couple are initially happy with each other, Fajolo is sent to a work camp for the summer where he begins a relationship with another girl in the absence of Bela and Bela, lonely and living in a tense home environment with her blind mother and adulterous father, is consoled by Peto (Lubo Roman).
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