Three stories ('The Garden of Eden', 'The Open Country of a Lonely Man', and 'Riedgost') by a new generation of Czech filmmakers who combine personal friendship with a common approach to work. They reveal a raw, non-cliplike poetic combining actors and nonactors and an interest in finding value in places normally thought of as 'armpits of the world.' In such out-of-the-way locations they discover much of fundamental worth: a love story at a small 'Sudeten' train station, the magic of slivovice plum brandy in the Wallachian hills, the power of ancient myths, and the realization that we are mainly looking for things which are right under our noses.

Cast / Vráťa Hauser , Marie Mazurová , Petr Fiala , Luboš Oravec , Jaromír Dulava , Zdeněk Marek , Dominika Chmelařová , Jiří Vymětal    Writer / Bohdan Sláma , Marek Epstein , Pavel Göbl    DoP / Martin Douba , Martin Šácha , Tomáš Nováček    Editor / Tomáš Doruška , Jan Daňhel , Šárka Sklenářová    Sound / Radek Rondevald , Jiří Melcher , Tomáš Zůbek    Costumes / Bára Lhotáková , Pavel Göbl , Tomáš Doruška    Set Designer / Bára Lhotáková , Pavel Göbl , Roman Švejda

Release date / 04 April 2002