Jindřiška Dudziaková

During a night train journey to Prague, a disgraced minister of justice meets an ambitious young woman. This chance encounter gives rise to an unexpectedly close relationship over the course of a single night. In a labyrinth of secret lovers, unexpected revelations, and drunken reckonings with the past, both women are forced to confront their own loneliness, unfulfilled ambitions, and deep need for genuine human connection.

"A documentary anatomy of mass murder for one monitor and 34 talking heads." These are the words the filmmakers use in the credits to describe their project, which thematises the execution of more than 260 Carpathian Germans, Hungarians and Slovaks by Czechoslovak army soldiers near Přerov in June 1945. The “massacre at Přerov” is made present through a minimalist dramatisation of the interrogation footage of direct participants, eyewitnesses, and others. It is as if the characters of ancient theatre were entering the Zoom “stage” and delivering a tragic message of fear, hatred and disinterest across the chasm of time.

Human kindness and purity in a corrupt world will never go out of style. This is proven by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's more than 150-year-old story "The Idiot," which continues to inspire new adaptations and resonates with contemporary audiences thanks to its timelessness.