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The story takes place in 1980. A few months ago, Richard, a civil servant, signed Charter 77, by mistake (when drunk), rather than out of conviction. Since then, he´s been bedevilled by bad luck. And today is the limit! In the afternoon, he has an appointment with the dentist to have his eighths extracted, a dreadful prospect but small matter comparing with awaiting him before that: at work a financial statement, a colleague eager for marriage who hasn't grasped that their “affair” was a mere flirt, an ultimatum from his boss for Richard to retract his signature of the Charter, at home a burst stand-pipe with an old rusty gun hidden in it, unexpected paternity of his fifteen-year-old son who asks him to play the father, and on top of all, the omnipresent shadow of the secret policeman spying on him. In short – a day when he can either lose everything or at last finding his own self!
HD | 82´ | © 2014
director(s): Jiří Strach
producer(s): Czech Television
scriptwriter(s): Marek Epstein
director of photography: Vladimír Křepelka
cast: Ivan Trojan, Zuzana Stivínová, Jiří Dvořák, Josef Dvořák, Miroslav Krobot, Tomáš Töpfer, Zuzana Kajnarová, Simona Babčáková, Oldřich Navrátil, Marek Taclík, Milan Němec, Tomáš Sagher and others
rights available: TV, Video, Internet
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English
other data: Awards: PRIX EUROPA 2014 - Best European TV Drama