The Cry

Ivana is in hospital about to give birth. Her husband Slavek spends the day outside. His work is repairing televisions, going from house to house on call. All day his wife and their life together run through his mind. He remembers how they first met and the days they spent getting to know each other. At the same time he starts seeing the world around him more closely. The question that keeps returning is this: what kind of society will his child be born into. The film tells one day folded into memory. Eva Límanová and Josef Abrhám appear in Jaromil Jireš’s Czechoslovak film of 1964, eighty minutes long.