A scientist who was imprisoned in a Stalinist concentration camp undergoes heart surgery. The authorities are willing to rehabilitate him, but he has no will to live. The only thing that fascinates him is a girl who releases pigeons on the terrace of a building a few blocks away.
A grieving film. Brilliant use of the colour red and lensing. It is a wonder that a film so critical of the Communist regime could be made right after the Russian invasion of 1968 that quashed the Prague Spring.
See http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/jachn952.htm for more about Karel Kachyna.
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