A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was out bathing, leaving him with not even change for the tram. The man has taken care of him and is taking him home. At first nobody notices them but as soon as the people realize they are seeing something out of the ordinary they begin to react to the situation. Some are content with the simple explanation as to why the boy is naked. Others are agitated, for they see the whole situation as something unseemly. An ordinary incident, which might have been passed over in silence, results in a heated argument that turns into a fight. More and more people join in the fight until the police are forced to intervene.
Direction
Moravec turns a tram into a pressure cooker of escalating absurdity.
Writing
Short story adaptation that knows exactly when to detonate.
Director
Jan Moravec
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Czechoslovak New Wave, when filmmakers used bureaucratic absurdity to critique socialist conformity without explicitly criticizing the regime.
Based on a short story by Jan Weiss — the same premise was later adapted for television multiple times across Eastern Europe, proving naked-tram chaos is somehow timeless.
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