In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
A day in the life of Arnošt, a soldier staying in Josefov. A sense of desperation permeates the environment as well as the mind of the protagonist. It is sunday, and saturday left just a hangover. Days go by, nothing changes. A metaphor for the political situation in the Czech lands at a time where depicting a soldier as a drunk was considered out of place to say the least.
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the stationmaster. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes hold and everyone’s worst instincts are released. Interrogations, the abolition of rights and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder
Matylda (Jaroslava Ticha), who lives in the Czech countryside, is trying to arrange burial plans for her dying husband, Jan (Ludvik Kroner). While Matylda hopes to have a funeral for Jan in the small town where they once lived, there are complications. Years earlier, Jan spoke out against the Communist government and was consequently expelled from the town. When Matylda fails to convince a local politician to allow the ceremony, she uses her husband's funeral as a public show of dissent.
파티에서 위험한 대화를 하지 않았는지 한번 의심하기 시작하면 모든 것이 의심스러워 보인다. 그리고 부엌의 틈새에 떨어뜨린 포크를 집으려다 도청 마이크를 발견한다. 화장실에서도, 다른 방에서도 찾아볼 수 있다. 그러나 이미 말해서는 안 되는 것들을 말해 버린 후였다. 베란다에서 보낸 두 사람은 아침을 맞이한다. 아내가 불안함을 흘리며 화면이 점점 어두워지다 영화는 끝난다.
A run-of-the-mill family is terrorized by strangers dressed in military garb who invade their private realm.
