Fresh grad vs. the machine — one honest man, a deadly cover-up, and zero good options.
The fate of Ondrej Horniak, a young civil engineer, who after graduating starts working in a construction company as a deputy construction manager on a large construction site. Here he encounters all the ills of socialist construction - sloppiness, corruption, careerism, irresponsibility. After an accident at a construction site, for which the perpetrators face prison, his superiors want to put all the blame on the young engineer Horniak.
Acting
Geišberg's simmering desperation — every betrayal lands.
Direction
Banyák's claustrophobic framing traps you in the system.
Director
Jozef Banyák
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the final years of Czechoslovakia, this captures the specific exhaustion of late-socialist 'normalization' — when cynicism replaced ideology.
Director Banyák was blacklisted after 1968; this was his return to feature films, explaining the 16-year gap in his filmography.
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