Vladislav Vančura: Escape to Buda

The 1932 novel by the novelist, playwright and essayist Vladislav Vančura (1891-1942) tells a dramatic story of love and the failed marriage of a Prague student to a Slovak nobleman. The narrative, like Vančur's The End of Old Times (1934), is set in the 1920s. Directed by Josef Melč, it reads: Alfred Strejcek.