Up and Down / Horem pádem
Two refugee smugglers (Zdeněk Suchý, Jan Budař) find a two-month old child left in their car after a job. They sell the forgotten Indian boy to the childless Miluška (Nataša Burger), who wants to have a child. Her husband František (Jiří Macháček), however, is a football hooligan and a racist…
Forty-year old Hana (Ingrid Timková) works in a refugee aid center. Her much older partner Otakar (Jan Tříska) collapses while lecturing at the university. Their eighteenyear-old daughter (Kristýna Boková Lišková) learns by accident that Otakar never divorced his first wife, Věra (Emília Vášáryová), with whom he has a son, Martin (Petr
Forman)…
The stories mostly take place in present-day Prague.
Intertwined tragicomic stories of losing and finding of loves, friendship, families, parents and children.
A dramatic tale of altruism and xenophobia, about our fear of the unknown and the feeling of being threatened that awakens the demon of racism hidden in every one of us. A picture of the current existential feeling of central Europeans, who were isolated in the past by the Iron Curtain and whose insular incubator has been shattered before their eyes and turned into the global village. Above all else, the intimate story of a few ordinary people, who after a long period of silence, separation and lies, look for and find the strength and courage to find
their way to one another, to forgiveness and reconciliation, and their own private way out of chaos…
Cast: Petr Forman, Emília Vášáryová, Jan Tříska, Ingrid Timková, Kristýna Boková-Lišková, Jiří Macháček, Nataša Burger, Jan Budař, Zdeněk Suchý, Pavel Liška, Marek Daniel, Jaroslav Dušek, Jiří Maria Sieber, Jiřina Třebická, Martin Huba, Václav Havel, Andrej Toader, Jan Březina, Hynek Schneider, Ester Geislerová, Jakub Sommer, Milan Tomsa, Lucie Březovská, Štefan Chovanec, Ladislav Horáček, Lubor Dohnal, Miroslav Kaman a další.
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