Petr Václav's feature film debut oscillates between a societal investigation and a stylized psychological drama. A Romany boy, raised from birth in an orphanage and suffering emotional failures, quite naturally grows up into a hardened personality ready to start a life of crime: it ends only with his suicide in prison. This sophisticated 'portrait of a social problem' excels by means of stylization and meticulous work with nonactors.

Cast / Milan Cifra , Jaroslava Vysloužilová , Štefan Ferko , Radek Holub , Ludmila Krohová    Writer / Jan Šikl , Petr Václav    Story / Petr Václav    DoP / Štěpán Kučera    Editor / Alois Fišárek    Sound / Daniel Němec    Music / Jiří Václav

Release date / 14 November 1996