Luboš Svoboda

A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city.

Vladimír Michálek chose an unconventional adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel for his feature debut. Artistically reminiscent of the classic films of Karel Zeman, the director reinterpreted this dark story of a man vainly seeking a place in a rigidly ordered society by changing the desperate conclusion into a happy end. The film provided Czech comedian Jirí Lábus with a new kind of role: that of the despotic uncle of a main hero Karel Rossman (Martin Dejdar).

After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and removes their testicles.