A priest demands confession. When it's his turn, mercy evaporates.
The village priest wants no secrets among his sheep. When he is forced to undergo his own confession, no one shows great mercy.
Acting
Klapka's simmering resentment against Lichý's crumbling authority.
Direction
Hloz squeezes centuries of village dynamics into sixteen minutes.
Director
Robert Hloz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hloz made this as a student film at FAMU, Prague's legendary film school that launched Miloš Forman and Agnieszka Holland.
The mill itself functions as a character—ancient, indifferent, still grinding while human morality collapses around it.
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