Павел, травмированный гибелью девушки во время теракта в Тель-Авиве, нехотя соглашается на предложение своего одноклассника Плеха, который ищет нового штурмана дрона для съемок рекламы. Так же случайно Павел становится оператором на съемках избирательной кампании кандидата в президенты и постепенно втягивается в мир большой политики вместе с меркантильным Плехом – тот видит в кандидате «золотого гуся», который поможет нажиться. Идеалистическое мировоззрение Павла, мечтающего засудить Джорджа Буша за преступления в Гуантанамо, входят в противоречие с философией Плеха, считающего, что потребительство – тоже своего рода способ проявить общественную активность.
Dostoevsky’s latter-day opus about the siblings and their father is among the masterpieces of world literature. It asks profound questions about ethics and religion. Is there a God? Does the devil exist? Is everything allowed because we live in a world without morality? And if so, does patricide even constitute a crime? One of the most interesting adaptations of the material is The Karamazovs by Czech director Petr Zelenka. We witness a group of thesps from Prague on a trip to Krakow in Poland to stage the novel as a play in a derelict steelworks as part of the Closer to Life Festival. The project, however, is born under the bad sign, apparently doomed from the start. When they arrive, the roof is about to cave in, so that the actors are told to wear safety helmets. Their sole consistent audience is a laborer (Andrzej Mastalerz) who rather follows each dress rehearsal than watching over his seven-year-old son who has suffered a tragic accident in the factory.
With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second World War, and the pregnant Anna has to work hard in the farm and care sick relatives. Lonely and exposed to the harassment of the tyrannical mother-in-law, she waits for Albert, with no certainty that he will ever return.
