What if a computer could pick your soulmate better than your heart? Spoiler: it can't.
Marta (Jana Brejchová) and Viktor (Vlastimil Brodský) celebrate the tenth anniversary of their wedding half-heartedly. They both think they don't suit together. While visiting Marta's friend Alena (Iva Janzurová), who just got married for the third time, they learn an interesting thing. It was a computer which selected a husband for Alena and she claims she is happy. The couple gets off after certain hesitation to a cybernetic institute, where the computer tells them that living together is a risk for them. At the same time the computer selects them ideal partners - Mrs Tuchlová, a doctor for Viktor, and Petr Karát, a music composer for Marta. By a coincidence Viktor and Marta meet wrong people.
Acting
Brejchová and Brodský's exquisitely deadpan marital despair
Production
Gloriously clunky retro computer sets that age beautifully
Writing
Sharp satire that predicted dating apps by decades
Director
Petr Schulhoff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made in normalized Czechoslovakia, the film subtly critiques state-controlled 'optimization' of human lives through its computer-matching premise.
Director Schulhoff essentially made a Tinder predictor in 1975—complete with the same hollow promise of algorithmic romance.
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