It is a film consisting of six short stories, which mostly tell in a black humorous, ironic, often bitterly bitter form about an ancient curse, human infidelity, strange deviations, an unexpected miracle and hypocritical forgiveness. They have their own pointed structure, specific atmosphere and way of processing, and yet they pass on motives to each other that communicate with each other and observe the same things from different angles.
Writing
Zelenka's puzzle-box structure rewards obsessive rewatching.
Direction
Six distinct visual approaches, one unifying cynical voice.
Director
Petr Zelenka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zelenka wrote the screenplay in three weeks after a dream about a cursed coat button.
Released during Czech cinema's post-Communist renaissance, it satirizes the sudden moral flexibility of a nation rebuilding itself.
CZ
