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Two refugee smugglers find a two-month old child left in their car after a job. They sell the forgotten Indian boy to the childless Miluška, who wants to have a child. Her husband František, however, is a football hooligan and a racist Forty-years old Hana works in a refugee aid center. Her much older partner Otakar collapses while lecturing at the university. Their eighteen-years-old daughter learns by accident that Otakar never divorced his first wife, Věra with whom he has a son, Martin The stories mostly take place in present-day Prague. Intertwined tragicomic stories of losing and finding of loves, friendship, families, parents and children. A dramatic tale of altruism and xenophobia, about our fear of the unknown and the feeling of being threatened that awakens the demon of racism hidden in every one of us. A picture of the current existential feeling of central Europeans, who were isolated in the past by the Iron Curtain and whose insular incubator has been shattered before their eyes and turned into the global village. Above all else, the intimate story of a few ordinary people, who after a long period of silence, separation and lies, look for and find the strength and courage to find their way to one another, to forgiveness and reconciliation, and their own private way out of chaos
35mm | 107´ | © 2004
director(s): Jan Hřebejk
producer(s): Czech Television, Total HelpArt T.H.A.
scriptwriter(s): Petr Jarchovský
director of photography: Jan Malíř
cast: Petr Forman, Emília Vašáryová, Jan Tříška, Ingrid Timková, Kristýna Liška-Boková, Jiří Macháček, Nataša Burger, Jaroslav Dušek, Pavel Liška, Marek Daniel, Jan Budař and others.
rights available: TV, Video, Internet, Theatrical
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English
other data: Festival Awards: Audience Award Winner of the European Film Competition 7th Norrköping Film Festival Flimmer /
International Film Festival Karlovy Vary 2005 – selected by the film ctritics of the prestigious Variety magazine for the section Variety Critic´s Choice. /Participation at festivals: Face of love in Sochi, Russia / International Film Festival in Cleveland 2006 Best film in the category Eastern European Film Competition"