When Daria disappears after their first date, Marek finds her in a psychiatric hospital. Everything might be part of a disturbing game played by powerful pharmaceutical companies, though the truth may be more frightening than either of them realize.
Acting
Miklasová's vacancy is deeply unsettling
Production
Soviet brutalism meets sterile horror
Writing
Ambiguity that refuses to comfort you
Director
Matěj Pichler
Klára Miklasová
Daria
Jaromír Nosek
Marek
Jana Šulcová
Head Physician Prokesová
Karel Dobrý
Smíd
Paweł Deląg
Corragio
Jiří Schmitzer
Professor
Norbert Lichý
Detective
Vasil Fridrich
Kapo
Martin Sitta
Taxi driver
Jan Vlasák
Neighbor
Jitka Sedláčková
Alice Cerná
Josef Vrána
Švarc
Petr Semerád
Man with a goatee
Tomáš Havlínek
Ondra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Post-Soviet Czech cinema loves institutional paranoia — this fits a lineage of Kafkaesque bureaucracy horror.
Paweł Deląg (Corragio) was a major Polish star in the 90s; his casting signals 'untrustworthy authority' to Eastern European audiences.
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