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Quietly intense character dramas about ordinary people wrestling with hidden struggles, balancing melancholy and hope.

Created by

Jan Hřebejk, Tereza Kopáčová-Vrabelová

Genres

Drama

Starring

Eva Hacurová, Sabina Remundová, Filip Král

Overview

A primary school teacher with an inferiority complex about her weight, a bank clerk who suddenly develops a strange rash around her eyes, an aging owner of a 24-hour deli in an unhappy marriage, a lonely man living in the woods and strangers' cottages. They can continue to survive with their problems, hide them, and not deal with them. Or they can fight it and, at the cost of scars and wounds, improve their lives.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest and warm. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Identity, isolation, loneliness, family

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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