The episodic film MARBLES consists of several short stories about how women manipulate with men. About subtle blackmailings, about crying, about tears, about the ability to sacrifice oneself for a dream, about sex as a service, about the way we can use empathy. It all starts on the playground among children and death does not equal the end. As time goes by, a feminine mechanism of manipulation develops, shapes up, ripens until it reaches the stage of perfection. Individual short stories take place at a techno party as well as in a Catholic parsonage and they conclude in a content domestic routine of two old people which cannot be disrupted by anything – not even by death. The short stories about women of different age and lifestyle put together a story of one complete human life which was, thanks to the manipulation with others, lived according to the plan and at the same time and from the same reason wasted away.
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Olga Dabrowská Director · Diviš Marek Cinematographer David Čálek Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $20K · United States release May 13, 2009 · Produced in Czechia
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$20,440
Production
První veřejnoprávní
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Czechia
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Original title
Kuličky
Original language
Czech
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Czech
Release dates
Czechia · May 1, 2008
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United States · May 13, 2009
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Slovakia
April 1, 2009 · Febio Film Festival
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