THE LITTLE KEY
by Ján Novák
synopsis
A teenage couple breaks into a deserted old baroque fortress, formerly a communist and Nazi prison, to spend a romantic night together. Later on they find they are not alone, and slowly they realize that they have gone back in time to the Stalinist era in Czechoslovakia. Escape. Capture. Interrogation. Torture of the innocents by electrical current. The boy manage to make a dramatic escape from the prison and return back to 2009, while his girlfriend remains imprisoned in the past. Nobody believes when he tries to explain what happened. Finally he meets his girlfriend, who is now in her seventies.
international title: | The Little Key |
original title: | Klicek |
country: | Czech Republic |
year: | 2009 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Ján Novák |
film run: | 70' |
release date: | CZ 13/08/2009 |
screenplay: | Ján Novák, Šárka Horáková |
cast: | Jan Přeučil, Tomáš Šulaj, Petra Vlčková, Norbert Lichý, Stanislav Zindulka, Eva Hrušková, Jožka Kubánik, Roman Svoboda |
cinematography by: | Patrik Hoznauer |
film editing: | Jaromír Vašek |
producer: | Pavel Paleček |
production: | Stilus Press |
backing: | Czech State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography |
distributor: | Bontonfilm |