Jirina Bohdalová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jirí Císler

Ludvik, a Communist official, arrives back home with his wife after spending the evening at a government function where he finds out that several of his colleagues have been 'relieved' of their respon...( read more  read more... )sibilities. Once he is inside he discovers that his house is bugged and that 'The Ear' of the government has been listening to him. When the electricity goes in his house and he sees a group of shady men waiting outside his house, he fears that he is the next one to go....

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Unrated, 94 minutes

Directed by: Karel Kachyna

Release Date: October 18, 1990

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  • August 30, 2009
    Very impressive film about fear of the 50s in Czecoslovakia. It is one of the "safe films" that communistic regime kept in safe. It was made in 1970 and relaleased not sooner than 20 years later. Jirinka Bohdalova deserves 6 stars, she is brilliant. Radek Brzobohatý starring as ...( read more)her husband is also excellent. I cannot give 5 stars because there is nothing to laugh while watching the film... but it is not possible to fall asleep.
  • August 1, 2009
    WEB. Toda una sorpresa. La mezcla de denuncia a un régimen totalitario y de exploración psicológica de un matrimonio es espectacular. Acaso tiene su par de momentos sobreexpositores, pero es un gran trabajo de atmósfera, cámara, actuación y escritura. / A total surprise. The mixt...( read more)ure of denunciation of a totalitarian regime and of the psychological exploration of a marriage is just spectacular. Perhaps it has one or two overexpository moments, but it is a great work of atmosphere, camera, acting and scripting.
  • June 2, 2009
    enjoyable Czech drama.
  • December 15, 2008
    no thanks not my thing

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