Martin Matiášek

Underneath Times Square, there's a strip club filled with beautiful women. Behind the club's bathroom door is Shoes, a bathroom attendant. For three years, Shoes gives advice, compliments or a sympathetic ear to his visitors, getting occasional tips. But on the night of his three-year anniversary at the club, Shoes' customers and coworkers start to make him look into his own life.

1940년대 나치 점령 하의 체코를 무대로 한 로맨스 드라마. 의학도 엘리스카는 시골 병원에서 간호사로 일하고 있다. 그녀의 애인은 준수하고 성공한 외과의사 리차드로, 두 연인은 함께 일하면서 비밀 레지스탕스의 일원으로 활동한다. 그러던 어느 날, 그들 조직은 게슈타포에 의해 발각되고 조직원 모두는 죽음에 이른다. 리차드는 도망쳐 버리고, 엘리카는 홀로 안전한 장소에 숨어들어야 한다. 엘리카에게 목숨을 빚졌던 환자 조자는 150년의 광대한 자연을 품고 있는 자신의 거주지로 엘리카를 데려가고, 그들은 부부 행세를 한다.

This documentary about the people of Blšany is seen through the eyes of Mr. Tříska, the local one-room school principal and an amateur filmmaker, creator of a movie about “the smallest community in the world with a first league soccer team.” He guides us through an eerie village marked by Communism, a hamlet awakened from its lethargy once every two weeks by a first league soccer match. “Meetings were also held in the country,” claims Tříska, “but executions and trials took place in town. A person had to be careful in the country if he didn’t want to be denounced, but when he went to the doctor he knew he wouldn’t pay for prescriptions; and the bus cost a crown fifty, not ten like today.”