Dům pro dva

Czech Republic

Synopsis

Dan and Boza personify two antithetic attitudes to life though the conditions in which they live are identical. The two brothers work in the same printing office and live in their mother's flat. However, each of them has a different psyche and attitude to the world, to people and values, be they produced by these people or taken over from previous generations. Dan drinks, runs wild, throws his money around, and nevertheless is more successful with girls, and the mother shows more loving kindness towards him than Boza. When Dan does not have money to buy his mother a gift, he calmly steals some books in the printing office. If he does not have money to pay his bill in the pub and Boza is not at hand, he induces his friend Janicka to her charms to gapers for money. He entices his brother's girlfriend Magda, gets her pregnant, and, in the end, enlists, thus avoiding his duty. Souldful Boza takes great care of Magda and her child and marries her. After two years, Dan returns and seduces Magda out of envy. Harrassed, Boza is run over by heavily loaded lorry. The mother wants to solace Dan by rebealing to him that Boza was not her own son but an adopted child from God knows where. Dan realises that she has not grasped anything. He runs out of the house, joins the throngs, has the impression of seeing Boza but finds out that it was a mere illusion. Round him, he sees only people like him. He qusetions himself ...
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Cast & Crew

Directed by: Miloš Zábranský

Written by: Rudolf Ráž

Cast: Jiří Schmitzer (Boza), Jiřina Třebická (mother), Ivana Velichová (Magda), Ondřej Vetchý (Dan)

Nominations and Awards

  • Best Young Actor/ Actress  1988