Directed by:
Otakar VávraCinematography:
Jaroslav TuzarComposer:
Jiří SrnkaCast:
Jiřina Švorcová, Radovan Lukavský, Vladimír Ráž, Blanka Bohdanová, Eduard Cupák, Jana Gýrová, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Jiří Holý, Martin Růžek, Karel Höger (more)Plots(1)
Six years in the life of "Our Lady" Božena Němcová, when the writer fights the blows of fate in her personal life and the political situation by writing her memoir "The Grandmother". Because of its traditional poetics, this image of Němcová's struggle got overshadowed by the Czech New Wave; this gave an impulse to the film's creators - Otakar Vávra and František Pavlíček - to aim for new creative heights. (Summer Film School)
(more)Reviews (1)
Horoucí srdce is a very ambitious film, interesting in parts, but at times it is almost unworthy of Vávra in its didacticism and banality. In Němcová's room, the holy pictures of Tyl, Borovský and Sandová are displayed and treated according to their exceptional status. But the main problem I see in the portrayal of the ring around Božena Němcová, Karolina Světlá (Blanka Bohdanová) is a strange disciplinary character, J. E. Purkyně (Zdeněk Štěpánek) seems to have fallen out of a textbook, Bendl (Munzar), Borovský (Holý) and Podlipská (Gýrová) are also in a jumble of costumes... Švorcová's Němcová is most vivid in her joint scenes with Lukavský's Němec in Slovakia. However, despite the fact that this was a time period when the style of Czech feature films was changing rapidly, it could have been much worse. In addition, Vávra repaid his debt to this favorite substance handsomely in Příběh lásky a cti (1977) and Veronika (1985).
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