Main Cast: Petr Forman, Edita Brychta, Zdenek Sverak, Marian Labuda, Boleslav Polívka
Release Year: 1994
Country: CZ
Run Time: 102 minutes
Plot
Who knows what evil lurks behind your television screen? Czech writer/director Jan Sverak offers a possibility in this satirical tale of televisions that suck the life-force from every living thing. Our hero is Olda, who found himself suffering from extreme lethargy after he is interviewed on a tabloid television show. The puzzled doctors at the hospital have no clue why he is so weak and tired. But Fisarek, a strange natural healer, suggests that the cause is chronic energy loss. Fisarek teaches Olda techniques for drawing energy from the life-forces of people (especially children), trees, and art. To gain strength, Olda must also engage in tantric sex with beautiful women at a Turkish spa. The trouble is, every time Olda is near a TV screen he becomes totally lethargic again. Olda is making love with Anna, his new love, when a sprung mousetrap activates a TV remote that sucks Olda's power, bounces it off a satellite and uses it to power a pornographic program. Olda, realizing the problem becomes a television avenger, vowed to stopping the demonic screens at all costs. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast
Petr Forman - Olda Soukup
Edita Brychta - Anna
Zdenek Sverak - Fisarek, natural healer
Marian Labuda - Teacher Zima
Boleslav Polívka - Ing. Slezak
Tereza Pergnerova - Jitka; Jiri Kodet - Mikulik; Ivan Vyskocil - Dr. Stach; Daniela Kolarova - Marta Fisarkova; Ladislav Smoljak - Manager; Marek Vasut - Advertising Man; David Koller - Cowboy
Credit
Jaroslava Pecharova - Costume Designer, Jan Sverák - Director, Alois Fisarek - Editor, Andrej Soukup - Composer (Music Score), Jiri Svoboda - Composer (Music Score), Milos Kohout - Production Designer, F.A. Brabec - Cinematographer, Premysl Prazsky - Producer, Petr Soukup - Producer, Zbynek Mikulik - Sound/Sound Designer, Jan Slovak - Screenwriter, Zdenek Sverak - Screenwriter, Jan Sverák - Screenwriter
