A drug dealer named Mikes, who lives in Prague and longs to escape his own clichéd life.
Acting
Čechtický's dead-eyed desperation carries the whole thing.
Cinematography
Prague never looked so beautifully gray and hopeless.
Director
Vladimír Michálek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Josef Škvorecký's semi-autobiographical novel, though Michálek stripped much of the book's dark humor.
Shot in 1999, it captures Prague's post-Velvet Revolution identity crisis—old structures collapsing, nothing replacing them.
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