An original portrayal of a small Czech village where – as the locals put it – an UFO has landed in the form of a kilometre-long silverish factory: a Korean Hyundai automobile plant. The village, hitherto famous mostly for its sauerkraut and the “Radegast” beer was thus turned into an industrial zone – the largest greenfield investment project in the Czech Republic’s history. Nonetheless, for a long time many farmers resisted selling the land upon which the factory was now standing. Eventually, they all succumbed under the pressure from the neighbours, and even the anonymous death threats. The filmmakers returned to Nošovice two years after the dramatic property buyouts, at the time when the factory has just started churning out cheap cars. Combining the perspectives of seven characters, they have composed a portrayal of a place suddenly changed beyond recognition that is playful and chilling at the same time: a politically engaged absurd flick about a field that yields cars.
Direction
Klusák finds cosmic horror in zoning disputes
Writing
Seven perspectives, zero easy villains
Director
Vít Klusák
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'UFO' description became so ubiquitous that Hyundai PR briefly tried to lean into it before realizing alien invasion optics were bad for sales.
Nošovice became a Rorschach test for Czech identity: post-communist embrace of foreign capital versus rural suspicion of anything from 'out there' — including Seoul.
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