After World War II, fighter pilot Antonín Maděra returns from England to his native village in the Ore Mountains to forget the hardships and horrors of war and to "live, work, and love his neighbors," as he himself says. But Svatý Štěpán, which his family had to leave in 1939, is no longer the same place it used to be. However, even in his wildest dreams, he could not have imagined what really awaited him there.
Direction
Bočan merges Western, war drama, and fever dream seamlessly.
Production
Czech Ore Mountains standing in for bizarre alternate history America.
Writing
Based on Vladimír Körner's novel; metaphors hit like a cactus.
Director
Hynek Bočan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Edited down from a Czech TV series; the 1.3 TMDB score reflects confusion more than quality.
The 'Wild West' trope satirizes how Czechoslovaks mythologized America while grappling with Soviet reality.
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