Thomas negotiates with a widow, Madame Nemcova, to stay with her for a month. The train is canceled, Thomas decides to stay and wait, the taxi driver is sent back, and Thomas and Esther drag their large suitcases on themselves. Thomas and Esther, the people hiding behind these names, come by taxi to the train station, where from they have to take the train and leave. In the second part, the author presents us with the film’s plot, which is, perhaps, not a film, but a real story that happened. The shooting happens on location, besides an unnamed actress and Martin a very limited number of actors and movie crew participates in the filmong, including the owner of the house, who gave a pair of fugitives a roof, and a one-legged man who appears closer to the film ending. They made up their new biographies, and who these two are actually remains unknown. In fact, Esther and Thomas are not the husband and wife to each other, they were forced to create their new identities to not draw attention by the Nazis. The book begins with the shooting of the film in the postwar years in the Czech Republic, where a man and a woman during the German occupation are fleeing the country, but their train is canceled because of the explosion on the bridge, and they are forced to stay in a small village (on the outskirts of a city).Īn unnamed actress plays Esther Vorszda and an actor Martin Jelinek plays her husband, Thomas Vorszda. Before us is a fine example of European metaliterature which playing with the themes of human identity and WWII.
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