

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the station master. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes over and everyone's worst instincts are unleashed. Interrogations, disenfranchisement, and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder. The movie was completed in 1969, but it was banned and not released till 1990, Evald Schorm who died in 1988 never saw it completed.
Directed by Ladislav Novotný, Evald Schorm
User score
12 votes
Released
June 1, 1990
1h 43m
Czech

Jan Kačer

Bohumil Šmída

Jan Libíček
Joker

Květa Fialová

Josef Bek
Baritone / Christ

Bohumil Švarc

Luba Skořepová
Josef Němeček
Vladimír Jedenáctík
Jaroslav Wagner-Klenka
Jana Marková
Václav Špidla

Vladimír Ptáček
Eva Řepíková

Václav Trégl

Jaroslav Mareš

Jiří Hálek
Train Dispatcher

Nina Divíšková
Train Dispatcher's Wife
Karel Hovorka
Karel Bělohradský