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People in the Valley was Václav Wasserman’s first strong contribution to the peak of First Republic production. I believe that due to the absence of Miroslav Svoboda in the German version, this version could have been a notch better. What he does in every scene he is in would shame even the worst of all amateurs! Fortunately, his speech is often diluted by proven episodic actors or supporting roles, and when it comes to Štěpničková, she logically has the whole screen to herself and then everything is okay again. (22/02/2009)