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Wed, Feb 14...a bude hurdeutsch>>Synopsis Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll in a communist police state. The film takes place in the 1970s in the northern part of Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia. It centers on anti-hero Olin, who has just been released from a psychiatric hospital, where he ended up after slashing his wrists to avoid military service. A few weeks after his release, he becomes an important figure in the underground scene, attracting increasing attention from the forces of order. One day he decides to flee to the West, as he has always dreamed.
An existentialist attitude Interview with the director Those people came together slowly like in The Magnificent Seven; for many of them it was their first time, but their inexperience was compensated by motivation and desire. It was my hardest and at the same time my most beautiful shooting. For all of the participants, it was a trip that we will not forget for the rest of our lives. Question: Your main co-stars are lesser-known actors and non-actors. How was it working with them? Were they reliable? P.N.: I was scared of that, but at the same time I knew that no slick actor would do.
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It had to be authentic and crude. I hope we managed this by casting Karel Žídek in the main role of Olin. From the very beginning, I knew that such open-minded people sometimes have problems with reliability, but they had enthusiasm, and none of them betrayed the project. Among others, the band called ...a bude hůř appears in the movie, and the band will also play occasionally at some of the screenings. That brings us to one of the most interesting facts about the movie: the producer, Čestmír Kopeck |