Prague Blues

Prague Blues

1963 · 74 min · ★ 8.0 · Drama

African student Omar would like to return home to Angola, but he is enrolled in a three-year postgraduate research fellowship at a clinic in Prague. One day while seeing off a friend at the airport, he and a girl named Mariama are brought together by chance as he offers to accompany her in an unfamiliar city toward the International Student Club, where she plays bass in a jazz orchestra.

Directed by Giorgos Skalenakis · Written by Karel Štorkán

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