Lovers & Murderers is about the ongoing war between those who have and those who want to have what the others have. The have-nots see themselves as poor victims trying to get for themselves what is justly theirs. But when the have-nots become haves, they continue to see themselves as victims of the hordes baying for what is justly theirs, and they have neither the energy nor the security to enjoy what they have obtained. The movie takes place in the microcosm of a small apartment building. The principal goal of the young people who share rooms in the building is to move into their own room and, some day, a real apartment. They scheme to get what they're after: form short-lived alliances, petition, frighten, marry, become pregnant, anything that might work. Lovers & Murderers presents Páral's vision of mankind caught in a cyclical process in which ideology pales before the pettiness, cruelty, and self-justification of human nature.
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Cast
36 people
Jiří Langmajer
Borek Trojan
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Ondřej Vetchý
Julda Serafin
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Kolya
Zlata Adamovská
Zita Gráfová
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Jakub Prachař
Roman Gráf
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Kristina Kloubková
Madda Serafínová
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Jan Vlasák
Evžen Gráf
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Hostel
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Tatiana Vilhelmová
Veronika Žilková
MUDr. Dáša Zíbrtová
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Little Otik
Marek Taclík
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Jolana Tušlová
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Kolya
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Alex Serafín
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Tereza Duchková
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Viktor Polesný Director · Petr Poledňák Screenplay Vladimír Páral Writer
First release December 9, 2004 · Produced in Czechia · Production Bontonfilm, Česká televize
Production
Arva
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Bontonfilm
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Česká televize
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Czechia
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Original title
Milenci a vrazi
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
Czechia · December 9, 2004
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No release date listed for United States.
Slovakia
March 10, 2005 · Theatrical
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