A naive village girl, Valentýna, arrives in Prague and, under dramatic circumstances, becomes reluctantly entangled in the Karlín underworld as a novice prostitute controlled by the slimy gangster Pavouk and his bumbling henchman Milan. She repeatedly refuses the genuine support offered by the incorruptible mounted policeman Viktor Sokol, even as two eccentric observers serve as a choric commentary on the absurdities around them. Through parodic and poetic scenes, ranging from western-inspired mounted police sequences to a surreal “war” over exporting plastic gnomes, the film satirizes contemporary Czech society.
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Cast
20 people
Barbora Hrzánová
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Bohumil Klepl
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Radek Holub
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Leoš Suchařípa
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Jiří Ornest
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The Little Mermaid
Vladimír Marek
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Divided We Fall
Karel Dobrý
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Jorga Kotrbová
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Princess Goldilocks
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Eva Holubová
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Cosy Dens
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Oto Ševčík
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Petr Čtvrtníček
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Milan Šteindler
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Redakce
Zdeněk Tyc Director · Vladimír Holomek Cinematographer Boris Machytka Editor
First release March 21, 1996 · Produced in Czechia, Slovakia · Languages Czech, German
Production
In Film Praha
Production
Česká televize
Production
Barrandov Studio
Production
Charlie's Bratislava
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Czechia · Slovakia
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Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech · German
Release dates
Czechia · March 21, 1996
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No release date listed for United States.
Czechia
April 4, 1996 · Premiere · Prague, Lucerna cinema and Galaxie cinema
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