Many years after a nuclear holocaust, a small group of young women roam the forests, led by an "old woman" (Beta Ponicanova) who wears military garb and tries to keep the less stable members in the line. The women have little sense of purpose and while away the time in senseless cruelty to the animals they catch. Eventually, they came to a small hotel run by a harmless old man (Ondrej Jarichek), and are charmed into a sense of peace -- momentarily.
From Fandango:
Pavel Juracek, one of the leading lights in the Czech New Wave of the 1960s, scripted this bleak portrait of a post-apocalyptic world. After simultaneous nuclear attacks by the East and West wipe out the lion's share of the Earth's population, a band of eight women in their mid-twenties to early thirties, led by an elderly female military officer, wander the landscape of Eastern Europesearching for food, supplies and other survivors. In time, the women discover a dilapidated hotel that has become home for a lonely old man who guards a few tattered remnants of the former civilization -- a television that no longer works, an old newspaper, and a wind-up phonograph.
Starkly photographed in black and white, The End of August at the Hotel Ozone marked the second collaboration between Juracek and Director jan Schmidt, who previous co-wrote and co-directed the short subject Postava K Podpirani.
From Amazon.com:
Nuclear was has destroyed most of civilization. A pack of wild girls search for males who can give them children. The End of August at the Hotel Ozone, scripted by Czech New Wave filmmaker Pavel Juracek (Voyage to the End of the Universe), offers a chilling look at the future of humanity. With its stark cinematography and atmospheric settings, director Jan Schmidt creates the perfect mood to complement Juracek's sci-fi tale about what awaits us after the end of the world.
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