Directed by:
Juraj NvotaScreenplay:
Ondrej ŠulajComposer:
Róbert MankoveckýCast:
Ľuboš Kostelný, Táňa Pauhofová, Dorota Nvotová, Jan Budař, Marek Geišberg, Marián Geišberg, Jana Oľhová, Petra Polnišová, Karol Spišák, Csongor Kassai (more)Plots(1)
Not far from a large city, a few steps from the border with a hostile capitalist country, in a Nowheresville from which the roads lead nowhere but back, starts a cheerful and a bit dark story of a man who hoped that music would help him out of a pool but who rolled music in mud instead. It will also be a story of his contemporaries, friends, wishes and dreams of freedom that used to be one of the most precious, best-guarded and least accessible values in Czechoslovakia at the turn of the 1970´s and the 1980´s. It is also a story of young people who fret about their lives, loves, jealousy and temptation. They encounter limitations of the time in which bananas were narrow-profile goods and the way to the West was an unrealizable dream. The time in which everything was decided by the members of a single party and in which informers provided information of the fact that the boilerman plays American music on his saxophone. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Ľuboš Kostelný](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268586_421e2a.jpg)
Ľuboš Kostelný
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Muzika (2007)
Landscape (2000)
Sluneční stát (2005)
![Táňa Pauhofová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/673/162673467_1f9b83.jpg)
Táňa Pauhofová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Burning Bush (2013) (TV movie)
Kukura (2014) (theatrical recording)
BrainStorm (2008) (TV movie)
![Dorota Nvotová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268767_c7cb88.jpg)
Dorota Nvotová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Muzika (2007)
Landscape (2000)
The Confidant (2011)
![Jan Budař](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/296/162296855_ce2435.jpg)
Jan Budař
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Stavrogin je ďábel (2005) (theatrical recording)
Burning Bush (2013) (TV movie)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
![Marek Geišberg](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/810/164810746_a93b35.jpg)
Marek Geišberg
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Štúrovci /Koncert zrušený/ (2007) (theatrical recording)
Let There Be Light (2019)
Iba taká hra (1995) (TV movie)
![Marián Geišberg](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272611_f7b5b8.jpg)
Marián Geišberg
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Kucapaca alebo Obnovenie poriadku (1989) (TV movie)
The Seven Ravens (2015)
Na konci hry (2002) (TV movie)
![Jana Oľhová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/279/279133_e8f937.jpg)
Jana Oľhová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Kukura (2014) (theatrical recording)
Želary (2003)
Zločin a trest (2015) (theatrical recording)
![Petra Polnišová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/857/164857503_38d77d.jpg)
Petra Polnišová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Invalid (2023)
Muzika (2007)
Maria Theresa (2017) (series)
![Karol Spišák](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/225/158225803_44b868.jpg)
Karol Spišák
Slovak state
Best movies:
The Ballad on the Seven Hanged (1968) (TV movie)
Before Tonight Is Over (1965)
Kľúče od mesta (1983) (TV movie)
![Csongor Kassai](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/180/161180340_47e2ad.jpg)
Csongor Kassai
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Les Ballets Bubeníček - Orfeus (2016) (theatrical recording)
Tata (2000) (theatrical recording)
Divided We Fall (2000)
![Martin Trnavský](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/278/278711_cc6050.jpg)
Martin Trnavský
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Rules of Lies (2006)
Innocent Lies (2013) (series)
![Lujza Garajová Schrameková](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/623/159623111_7fc618.jpg)
Lujza Garajová Schrameková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Generál (2011) (theatrical recording)
Muzika (2007)
Immortalitas (2012)
![Kamil Mikulčík](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/279/279164_db26d8.jpg)
Kamil Mikulčík
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Generál (2011) (theatrical recording)
Walking Too Fast (2009)
Muzika (2007)
![Ady Hajdu](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/097/319/97319064_883959.jpg)
Ady Hajdu
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Henrich IV. (1987) (theatrical recording)
Romulus Veľký (1992) (TV movie)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
![Peter Pišťanek](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/084/161084241_b01415.jpg)
Peter Pišťanek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Muzika (2007)
Rukojemník (2014)
Ronnie Šandorová Traubnerová
Best movies:
Muzika (2007)
![Ján Lehotský](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275789_f7618b.jpg)
Ján Lehotský
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Muzika (2007)
V slepých uličkách (2015) (concert)
Lýra 50 (2016) (concert)
![Lukáš Latinák](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/850/164850009_40dd25.jpg)
Lukáš Latinák
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Actor (2020) (series)
Identity Card (2010)
Invalid (2023)
![Milan Ondrík](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/188/164188676_ec5fa9.jpg)
Milan Ondrík
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Všetko za národ (2011) (theatrical recording)
Polnočná omša (2015) (theatrical recording)
Statky zmätky (2009) (theatrical recording)
![Marian Marko](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/317/160317868_9d7c07.jpg)
Marian Marko
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Muzika (2007)
Landscape (2000)