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A thriller inspired by actual events which took place in the 1980s. At a luxurious cabin owned by their parents, a twisted group of young men threw an erotic party where they got off on overpowering pre-selected young women and forcing them to participate in group sex. Neither of the victims brought charges out of fear and shame. One day the young men abducted a pretty student named Marika from a university club. But she didnt want to keep quiet about the humiliation she had suffered and so they sentenced her to death. They drew lots in her presence to decide which of them would become her murderers. At dawn they took the unfortunate Marika to a shallow lake and ruthlessly drown her in the hope that her body would never be discovered. In their minds many of the perpetrators transformed the victims of the tragedy into the culprits. A witness present at their erotic get-together was frightened into silence. They stopped meeting each other. On the basis of circumstantial evidence the father of one of the youths discovered his sons guilt, nevertheless he helped him cover his tracks. Despite a thorough investigation, it was not until several years later that the police discovered evidence linking this horrific crime to the perpetrators. Then their parents fought tooth and nail to ensure that the truth would not come out without the slightest compassion for the victims, motivated only by their selfish need to protect their boys and their precious social standing. Drawn from true-life events which shocked the Czechoslovak nation a generation ago, this psychological film, is a harsh statement about monstrous forms of egotism, license, cynicism, and cruelty.
35mm | 100' | © 2004
director(s): F. A. Brabec
producer(s): Czech Television, Diamant Film Praha
scriptwriter(s): Markéta Zinnerová
director of photography: F. A. Brabec
cast: Martin Stropnický, Jan Potměšil, Pavel Šimčík, Kristina Filipová, Jiří Bartoška, David Kraus, Jana Štefánková, Anna Polívková, Barbora Seidlová, Vlastimil Harapes, Alois Švehlík and others
rights available: TV, Video, Internet, Theatrical
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English