A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three generations (1948, 1968, 1988) are forced to confront their ideals and places in society through the events of one strange night.
Acting
Three performances mapping 40 years of dead-eyed conviction
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like ideology eating itself alive
Direction
Fenič makes one night feel like an entire regime's death rattle
Director
Fero Fenič
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1990, literally months after the Velvet Revolution ended 41 years of Communist rule—this is art made while the corpse was still warm.
Fenič specifically chose actors who'd lived under the regime; Jan Tesarz was blacklisted in the 1970s. The generational casting isn't metaphor—it's autobiography.
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