A Czech couple witnesses murder and gets paid to shut up — what could go wrong? Everything.
A married couple unexpectedly find themselves witness to a murder. The perpetrators pay them to remain silent, but also turn them into the main suspects of the crime. The more the two try to distance themselves from the case, the more entangled they become, and so does their relationship
Acting
Stivínová and Sokol's brittle, eroding chemistry
Direction
Svátek's suffocating domestic spaces
Director
Dan Svátek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title refers to the philosophical principle that the simplest explanation is usually correct — bitterly ironic given the couple's escalating lies.
Svátek emerged from Czech TV crime series (Četnické humoresky), making this his deliberately grimy departure into theatrical moral darkness.
CZ
