55 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestThe six-part drama directed by Tereza Kopáčová based on a script by Miro Šifra and Kristina Májová returns to a love story that traumatized several generations of Czechoslovaks. What preceded the infamous family tragedy of 1968? What followed it? Where can disrupted relationships in a closed rural community lead? What do we take with us as an inner legacy from our parents?
Acting
Švehlík and Matoušková weaponize repressed longing.
Cinematography
The well itself: character, metaphor, and menace.
Direction
Kopáčová turns Czech fields into suffocating traps.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Jelínek tragedy remains Czechoslovakia's most infamous rural crime; generations still whisper about 'the well murders.'
Šifra and Májová spent years accessing sealed Communist-era court files to reconstruct suppressed witness testimonies.
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