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They commit murder because they love. They love enough to murder. The film story takes place in the 1970s and 1980s in North Bohemia. The central setting is a house somewhere in the town of Ústí nad Labem that belongs to the Kotex factory. The house serves as a boarding house for men and women. Also living here are the Graf factory manager, the young married couple named Tušl who fight by fair means and foul for their dreamed-of rabbit-pen of an apartment in a pre-produced panel high-rise, Alex the cynic who rapes his sister Madda practically in sight of all the house inmates, and a gang of mechanics. All the relationships are hopelessly intermixed; violence, bestiality and hatred rule over all else. One of the main protagonists of the film and yet another inmate of this house is the ambitious Borek Trojan, who is having a love affair with the overly ladylike wife of manager Graf. However, his love for the much older Zita doesnt last long and falling into the drugs and alcohol trap, she ends up in an asylum for the insane. Her son Roman falls hopelessly in love with Madda, the beautiful but restless girl who finally drives him over the edge and makes him murder her brother. The laws that rule this house are not those of love, but those of hatred and torture both physical and mental. Humans fall to the level of beasts and seem to be ruled only by sex, lust and malevolence. And yet all these people are capable of love The film is a dynamic collage of human fates, unraveling in fast rhythm, but in all not lacking a humorous, detached attitude.
HD | 105´ | © 2004
director(s): Viktor Polesný
producer(s): Czech Television, ARVA
scriptwriter(s): Viktor Polesný, Petr Poledňák
director of photography: Josef Špelda
cast: Jiří Langmajer, Ondřej Vetchý, Zlata Adamovská, Jan Vlasák, Kristina Kloubková, Jakub Prachař, Marko Igonda, Veronika Žilková, Marek Taclík, Petra Špalková, Zuzana Norisová and others..
rights available: TV, Video, Internet, Theatrical
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English