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The Contract

2011 · 24 min

A quiet, unsettling chamber piece that turns a morbid premise into a tense meditation on love and mortality.

Directed by
Anna Zaytseva
Genres
Drama, Romance
Starring
Josef Guruncz, Petr Hala, Oleg Hustey
Overview
A rich man of 40 arrives at a secret hotel where he can be assisted in his unusual desire - suicide. Upon arrival, the man signs the obligatory contract relieving him of the knowledge of time and method of his death. Meanwhile, he meets another client of the hotel's services, a beautiful woman, and begins to doubt the wisdom of his decision. Yet, the unseen wheels of death are already in motion. Will love conquer death?

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Directed by
Anna Zaytseva
Genres
Drama, Romance
Starring
Josef Guruncz, Petr Hala, Oleg Hustey
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • death
  • love
  • fate
  • isolation
  • morality
Places
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour1
Realism6
Romance5
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Anna Zaytseva
Written by
Anna Zaytseva
Starring
Josef Guruncz, Petr Hala, Oleg Hustey, Pavel Řezníček, Vlastina Svátková
Runtime
24 min
Country
Czech Republic
Languages
English

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