Directed by:
Michal StarýScreenplay:
Michal StarýCinematography:
Jan VališComposer:
Petr PliskaCast:
Lukáš Král, Tomáš Dianiška, Jitka Ježková, Cyril Drozda, Dana Černá, Jan Maléř, Petr Holeček, Jakub OuvínPlots(1)
Max Varga owns a private company whose business is to injure persons upon orders from contracting authorities. However, the specified subject disappears durig one such action. A desperate struggle with time begins, in which Max cannot disappoint his client, Lola Lieberman, and at the same time he enters into a dispute with his colleague Tom Karloff… The short film of Michal Starý, who graduated from the Film Academy of Miroslav Ondricek in Pisek , deals with the moral decline of a man who had long been building evil around him until it began to devour him. Thematically and stylistically, the film refers to film noir conventions, but the creative intent was to enrich known visual elements (such as low-key lighting and biased image compositions) using techniques and elements not typical in classic noir films, such as hand-held camera work and electronic music. (Noir Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Lukáš Král
Best movies:
One Life (2023)
Royal Affair (2012)
Czech Century (2013) (series)
Tomáš Dianiška
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Burning Bush (2013) (TV movie)
Habermann's Mill (2010)
Oktopus (2023) (series)
Jitka Ježková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
The Wonderful Years That Sucked (1997)
iMucha Show (2022) (theatrical recording) - narrator
Cyril Drozda
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch (2016) (theatrical recording)
The Inheritance (1992)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Dana Černá
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Defender (2021) (series)
Dámský krejčí (2012) (theatrical recording)
Sekal Has to Die (1998)
Jan Maléř
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Měsíc nad Buffalem (2007) (theatrical recording)
O Ječmínkovi (2003) (TV movie)
Když chcípne pes (2004) (TV movie)
Petr Holeček
Czechoslovakia
Jakub Ouvín
Best movies:
Princess Cursed in Time (2020)
Alchemist Cursed in Time (2022)