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Vaclav, the village loser, in his 40's bordering on autism, lives with his widowed mother on the outskirts of the village. He is seen by villagers as the local fool, nothing but a constant pain for them, but there is a skeleton in the village closet concerning his father's death.
Acting
Ivan Trojan walks a razor's edge between pathos and punchline.
Writing
The script weaponizes small-town politeness against itself.

Director
Jiří Vejdělek
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