... A Bude Hůř

In order to avoid military service Olin slits his wrists. On his release from a psychiatric ward he throws himself headfirst into the cellars and grimy pubs of his hometown, where he discovers a world of outcasts, drunkards and freaks who live according to their own dictates, unaffected by communist ideals and the ruling ideology. Though it's here that he meets Olina again, Olin nevertheless decides to escape to the West.

Based on the underground bestseller of the same name from Jan Pelc, here the depths of the abyss and an unimagined, stubborn beauty are never far apart. Pelc wrote the novel whilst in emigration in France, where it was released by a publishing house for exiles. Director Petr Nikolaev shot this black and white film back in 2007, after which he refused to show it in cinemas, preferring to use pubs, cultural houses and the open air for screenings. CF