A Czech shoe factory walks into a Cold War bar: capitalism or socialism?
The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.
Production
Authentic factory chaos, no CGI needed.
Writing
Dialogue that debates without boring.
Director
K.M. Walló
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Czechoslovakia's Stalinist period, yet somehow got away with questioning both systems.
The factory scenes were shot in an actual Bata shoe plant, whose founder famously fled Czechoslovakia for capitalism.
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