Helena, is about to give birth and face a rosy future in a modern city, as the pregnant wife of an important factory manager. However, all her illusions soon perish, as the dead body of a newborn intersex baby is found in the middle of their factory. Helena needs to find out what happened here for the safety of her own child, but she runs into her own prejudices.
Acting
Eliška Křenková's slow-burn transformation from denial to reckoning.
Production
The factory as character — clanking, breathing, hiding bodies.
Direction
Chlupáček's refusal to let anyone off the hook, including Helena.
Director
Matěj Chlupáček
Eliška Křenková
Helena Hauptová
Miloslav König
Alois Haupt
Milan Ondrík
Róbert
Luboš Veselý
Doktor Kubák
Richard Langdon
Alexander "Saša" Matula
Marián Mitaš
Major
Anton Šulík ml.
Advokát Schulz
Ladislav Hampl
Jan Antonín Baťa
Martin Šalacha
vedoucí Grena
Viktor Zavadil
Bázik
Martin Siničák
Vaněk
Iveta Dušková
Advokátová
Zuzana Konečná
Vychovatelka
Martha Issová
Stavbyvedoucího
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on real 1930s Slovak industrial scandals where intersex and disabled infants were systematically hidden or killed by medical institutions — the film's title isn't irony, it's accusation.
The intersex character Saša is played by a non-binary actor, a deliberate choice that reframes how period films typically cast marginalized bodies — the production actively resisted historical 'authenticity' that would replicate erasure.
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