Known for Acting
"Sex, drugs and rock and roll", not in the West but in a Communist police state - Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia of the 1970s . Anti-hero Olin, 21, has just left a mental hospital, after having slashed his wrists to dodge military service. His prominence in the underground scene of youthful revolt makes him an increasing target for the forces of order. Eventually he is on the run, determined to cross the frontier to the "West" he dreams of.
Tobiáš is a drummer for Ivan Král. He is also a professional garbage collector. He lives among garbage cans and a landfill. There he literally finds Pavla—a fragile, golden-haired creature with slashed wrists, unconscious. The love between Tobiáš and Pavla is strong, elemental—chaos. Pavla collapses in a nightclub. During a song, she is carried out on a stretcher. The head doctor at the hospital tells Tobiáš about Pavla's incurable illness and her impending death. Tobiáš raises money to save her life through charity concerts. After futile efforts, an opportunity for fraud arises. Even that doesn't help them. Yet in this situation, they find something much more important...
Meet The Plastic People of the Universe, the avant-garde, jazz-rock, Sun Ra meets Velvet Underground, Czech revolutionaries. A tribute to the band that against all odds used the power of their music to help topple their oppressive government.
A drug dealer named Mikes, who lives in Prague and longs to escape his own clichéd life.
It is a film consisting of six short stories, which mostly tell in a black humorous, ironic, often bitterly bitter form about an ancient curse, human infidelity, strange deviations, an unexpected miracle and hypocritical forgiveness. They have their own pointed structure, specific atmosphere and way of processing, and yet they pass on motives to each other that communicate with each other and observe the same things from different angles.
Czech semi-documentary.
