Michal Viewegh

An adaptation of a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh is a comedy about friendship, fateful loves, beauty and ugliness, alcohol, and the search for human happiness. The plot revolves around three friends - Jeff, Skippy and Tom - whose ups and downs and relationship breakups keep bringing them back to a shared bachelor apartment. Their counterparts in the story are two women - the class beauty Eva, who becomes the object of desire of all three guys in turn, and the ugly Hujerova, whose ironic attitude to herself and life in general gives her the ability to survive in a world that prizes beauty and to find her own path to happiness. - Czech film center

Фильм рассказывает об ангелах невысокого ранга, занятых на обыденной работе — скрашивать последний день людям, у которых не удалась жизнь. Чтобы хоть после смерти о них вспоминали с теплом. Исполнять их сокровенные желания, порой такие, что мало не покажется. Работа трудная, но она окупается, меняя к лучшему как участь живых, так и мертвых.

Фильм рассказывает об ангелах невысокого ранга, занятых на обыденной работе — скрашивать последний день людям, у которых не удалась жизнь. Чтобы хоть после смерти о них вспоминали с теплом. Исполнять их сокровенные желания, порой такие, что мало не покажется. Работа трудная, но она окупается, меняя к лучшему как участь живых, так и мертвых.

Marital fidelity can wear you down, and Ondra and Vitek are certainly suffering from a case of serious fatigue. Working side by side and living next door to each other, it doesn't take long before these two long-married middle-aged pals start comparing sex notes, and it's plain to see their latest scores have fallen far below what they would have hoped. Luckily, a surprise holiday on a tropical island rekindles their interest in their wives - only they don't exacly lust after their designated partners. With no one to divert their attention, their roaming eyes inevitably settle on the wrong spouse, and pretty soon they've established their own little Holy Quaternity.

Marital fidelity can wear you down, and Ondra and Vitek are certainly suffering from a case of serious fatigue. Working side by side and living next door to each other, it doesn't take long before these two long-married middle-aged pals start comparing sex notes, and it's plain to see their latest scores have fallen far below what they would have hoped. Luckily, a surprise holiday on a tropical island rekindles their interest in their wives - only they don't exacly lust after their designated partners. With no one to divert their attention, their roaming eyes inevitably settle on the wrong spouse, and pretty soon they've established their own little Holy Quaternity.

Два брата и сестра — Цирил, Бруно и Анета — рано остаются без родителей. Они живут в маленьком шахтерском городке, и все заботу о семье берет на себя старший брат. Прошло 25 лет. Цирил стал прокурором, сестра Анета — известная тележурналистка, Бруно живет с надоевшей ему женой и дочкой, связавшейся с панками. Бруно остается несколько месяцев. Eдинственное развлечение, которое отвлекает его от грустных мыслей, это общение в видеочате с красавицей Тали. Старший брат решает сделать Бруно прощальный подарок — поездку в пятизвездочный отель на горнолыжный курорт в Татрах. Бруно, Анета и Цирил, как в старые, добрые времена решают провести неделю вместе. Вот только Бруно не знает, что брат с сестрой подготовили ему еще один сюрприз — вместе с ними в путешествие отправляется та самая красавица Тали из видеочата. Брат-прокурор купил ее на все эти дни, чтобы она скрасила последние дни жизни Бруно.

In Prague, a musician is consumed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend Klára. He hires a private eye to spy on her, but the plan backfires, setting in motion a series of out-of-control events.

When Oskar, a self-centred TV weatherman, cheats on his wife Zuzana with their au pair, she kicks him to the curb and enlists her in-laws in the search for a new boyfriend.

This romantic comedy presents a story of two women, twenty-year-old Laura, an editor at a woman’s weekly, and her widowed mother, a translator-interpreter named Jana. The two of them tirelessly seek Mr. Right. Having once lived through an intense relationship with a ‘typical’ Czech man, Jana intentionally avoids Czech men. She searches for her dream foreigner while long-sufferingly warding off the tragicomic advances of her good-natured neighbor Žemla. After several unsuccessful attempts, Laura falls in love with Oliver, a forty year old who works as an ad agency idea man. Little does she suspect that twenty years ago Oliver was Jana’s true love…

This romantic comedy presents a story of two women, twenty-year-old Laura, an editor at a woman’s weekly, and her widowed mother, a translator-interpreter named Jana. The two of them tirelessly seek Mr. Right. Having once lived through an intense relationship with a ‘typical’ Czech man, Jana intentionally avoids Czech men. She searches for her dream foreigner while long-sufferingly warding off the tragicomic advances of her good-natured neighbor Žemla. After several unsuccessful attempts, Laura falls in love with Oliver, a forty year old who works as an ad agency idea man. Little does she suspect that twenty years ago Oliver was Jana’s true love…

The film adaptation of the novel of the same by Michal Viewegh. The hero of the novel is a primary school teacher with a successful writing career ahead of him who accepts well-paid employment from an entrepreneur who entrusts him with the task of making his unusual daughter "see sense".

Жизнь обычной семьи в абсурдные времена, к которым надо было приспособиться. По своему. Как угодно. Хоть как-нибудь. Действие фильма происходит в Праге и городке Сазаве, недалеко от Праги, в период с 1962 до горбачевской Перестройки, которая собственно и возродила в герое фильма веру в лучшее будущее.