A 20-year-old murder. One obsessed cop. Communist Prague's shadows don't forget.
Captain Jirák of the SNB is searching for the perpetrator of the murder of the former owner of an apartment building on the outskirts of town, which took place more than twenty years ago.
Direction
Cikán's stark compositions mirror bureaucratic hopelessness.
Writing
Dialogue heavy as the humid Prague air.
Director
Miroslav Cikán
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the brief post-Stalin thaw, it's one of few 1950s Czech films to hint at systemic moral rot without explicit condemnation.
Miloš Nedbal, who plays Jirák, was later banned from acting after 1968 Soviet invasion—his weary face here feels prescient.
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