An Earthy Paradise for the Eyes

A bitter cold comedy about how one could live in the 1970´s and yet did not let themselves get frozen. Adolescence is complicated, especially when it is 1968, foreign tanks run about outside, daddies of many various positions take turns at home. And mommy, despite her inner strength, does not manage to do everything by herself. How would it be possible to live through and survive the already severe 1970´s under such conditions? How one could retain their zest of life, feelings for love and yen for laughter? The bitter cold comedy Zemský ráj to na pohled by Irena Pavlásková is about these things, too. The main line of the movie is the story of Marta (Vilma Cibulková), her two adolescent daughters – Majda and Gábina (Dana Marková and Tereza Voříšková) – and their coming and leaving “daddies” (Jiří Dvořák, Miroslav Etzler, Jan Zadražil, Ondřej Vetchý). While some of the “daddies” try one by one to reverse the clock of Czech history if nothing else, Marta and her daughters resist the results and consequences arising from these attempts of theirs in connection with the communist regime. The world of the “big league politics” and large aims thus collides and blends with the everyday life reality as well as complements it. And the fact that funny situations occur in the meantime? Well, at that time, the ability to be ironic and sense of humor were an essential part of every survival pack that filled one with vitality, willingness and lust to live and not to fail in one´s own eyes. (texte officiel du distributeur)