Late August at the Hotel Ozone

Late August at the Hotel Ozone () is a 1967 Czechoslovak postapocalyptic science fiction film by director Jan Schmidt based on a screenplay by Pavel Juráček.

Plot The film follows the journey of a group of young women, children of the survivors in a post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear war, led by an old woman, Dagmar Hubertusová, in a search of survived men, for women to bear children and repopulate the planet. They find only one man, Hubert, who is too old to have children. Dagmar dies, of exhaustion and lost hopes, the women kill Hubert (because he is useless and refuses to give them his old grammophone) and hit the road again.

Cast as Hubert Beta Poničanová as Dagmar Hubertusová Magda Seidlerová as Barbora Hana Vítková as Tereza Jana Novaková as Klára Vanda Kalinová as Judita Natalie Maslovová as Magdaléna Irena Lžičařová as Eva Jitka Hořejšías Marta

Production Dana Medřická was originally considered for a role of Dagmar Hubertusová. The film was shot in an abandoned village near Mohelno.

Reception Late August at the Hotel Ozone was released in 1967. The New York Times wrote in 2014 "Gorgeously shot and devastatingly well told, the film echoes the hopelessness of certain World War II narratives of the era".

See also List of apocalyptic films List of nuclear holocaust fiction

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