Vlastimil Malaska

Max and Sally, the heroes of popular Czech animated series are leaving the TV in order to become a regular boy and girl.

Una mirada documental a prostitutas masculinas condenadas en Praga, de entre 15 y 18 años, que se pasean por la piscina pública, la estación de tren, una sala de juegos de video y una discoteca. Después de que los chicos hablan de cómo entraron en el juego, la cámara los sigue hasta la casa de Pavel Rousek. Bajo el nombre de Hans Miller, realiza videos porno gay, principalmente para distribución en Alemania. Intercalado con un rodaje de la película Chez Rousek es una entrevista que lo sigue a su trabajo diario en una morgue, donde realiza una autopsia mientras habla de su trabajo. El sexo no tiene protección; los chicos no tienen familia. Hablan de sus cuerpos y almas, del dinero, de su orientación sexual, del SIDA, de sus sueños y de la muerte.

Interviews with a procurer and with nineteen boys and young men who are prostitutes in Prague. The youths range in age from 14 to 19. They hustle at the central train station and at clubs. Most of their clients are foreign tourists, many are German. The youths talk about why they hustle, their first trick, prices, dangers, what they know about AIDS, their fears (disease and loneliness), and how they imagine their futures. The film's title, its liturgical score, much of it elegiac, and shots of the city's statues of angels underline the vulnerability and callow lack of sophistication of the young men.

Twelve-year old Kosta, a little boy of an overactive imagination, makes friends with equally sensitive eleven-year old Blanka. Fantasy leads the two children to the forgotten attic in the house of Blanka's parents. For them, this is the forbidden "thirteenth chamber," and to Kosta, an old glass vase becomes a magic ball with the help of which he can play his favorite play "on fate". The children observe the adults and unconsciously sense that something has gone wrong in Blanka's family. Her dad is a physician and her mother is not happy with him, still recollecting her former wooer Petr who left for India upon his graduation.