
Lovers & Murderers
2004-12-09 · 108 min · ★ 6.5
Lovers & Murderers is about the ongoing war between those who have and those who want to have what the others have. The have-nots see themselves as poor victims trying to get for themselves what is justly theirs. But when the have-nots become haves, they continue to see themselves as victims of the hordes baying for what is justly theirs, and they have neither the energy nor the security to enjoy what they have obtained. The movie takes place in the microcosm of a small apartment building. The principal goal of the young people who share rooms in the building is to move into their own room and, some day, a real apartment. They scheme to get what they're after: form short-lived alliances, petition, frighten, marry, become pregnant, anything that might work. Lovers & Murderers presents Páral's vision of mankind caught in a cyclical process in which ideology pales before the pettiness, cruelty, and self-justification of human nature.
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- Directors
- Viktor Polesný
- Production companies
- Arva, Bontonfilm, Česká televize
- Countries
- Czech Republic
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Jiří LangmajerBorek Trojan
Ondřej VetchýJulda Serafin
Zlata AdamovskáZita Gráfová
Jakub PrachařRoman Gráf
Kristina KloubkováMadda Serafínová
Jan VlasákEvžen Gráf
Veronika ŽilkováMUDr. Dáša Zíbrtová
Marek TaclíkBogan Tušl
Petra ŠpalkováJolana Tušlová
Marko IgondaAlex Serafín
Danica JurčováBroňa Berková
Zuzana NorisováJana Rybářová
Pavel ŘezníčekIng. Frank Secký
Dana SedlákováHelena Secká
Vladimír Dlouhý
Tatiana Dyková
Saša Rašilov
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