A Czech director wrestles with problems personal and political during the Prague spring of 1968.
Direction
Šulík blurring documentary and fever dream until you can't tell which is which.
Writing
Swift's satire weaponized against Soviet tanks.

Director
Martin Šulík
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Velvet Divorce, this captures Czechoslovakia's final gasp before dissolving into Czech Republic and Slovakia. The personal IS the political here.
Šulík cast his actual wife and used his real apartment. The boundary between Marek the character and Šulík the director dissolves completely by the third act.
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