Bony a klid

The final star I’m giving it is definitely only for the rather amusing templates played by Josef Nedorost and Tomáš Hanák. All the other minuses are for the full-length backing track from the then quite old album "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (1984) by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, whose main hits "Relax" and "The Power of Love" I hope to never hear again. This sort of overuse was not a good solution. The current album "Liverpool" (1986) would probably not be put in the film, even in one from the socialist block. (03/10/2009)

La première moitié du film me torturait, surtout par sa forme, et je priais le temps d'avancer plus vite pour que la souffrance s’arrête. Mais mon impression générale s’est améliorée dans la deuxième moitié. C’est certainement un thème intéressant et vrai sorti de la plume de Vít Olmer et de Radek John avec de bonnes prestations de la part des acteurs, notamment celles de Jan Potměšil et Roman Skamene, malheureusement gâchées par la chanson Relax, dont la répétition infernale me rendait littéralement malade. Une fois ou deux, ça aurait été, mais le fait de la passer à la moindre occasion était extrêmement dérangeant. C’est pourquoi je ne lui mets que trois étoiles, malgré toute ma bonne volonté. (07/07/2013)

I remembered the film quite well from the last time I saw it. I was pleased that it still worked for me and the atmosphere was still there. I enjoyed it again and only took away one star for the music. Apparently, the creators chose the song “Relax” to accompany scenes with currency dealers without realizing that the dealers appear in almost every scene. At least I got to experience what it must be like for prisoners to be tortured by music. If Ondřej Soukup did editing on the soundtrack, too, congratulations... (28/04/2020)