

Loners
2000-04-13 · 103 min · ★ 7.5
Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of his friends. He helps to separate his friend Hanka from Peter, an announcer for an independent radio station who tries to capture "real" life by recording the moments from "reality" and playing them over the air. Vesna, came to Prague from Macedonia because it is according to her the best place for UFOs to land, but her real reason for coming is somewhat different... Hanka is followed by the crazy Ondrej, until then a respected brain surgeon, and married with two kids. Through him she meets Jacob, who uses copious amounts of weed in order to be constructive in this gloomy world. On the other hand, this destroys his short-term memory - and he forgets that he already has a girlfriend...
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- Directors
- David Ondříček
- Production companies
- Lucky Man Films, CinemArt, E-motion Film, Česká televize, Milk and Honey
- Countries
- Czech Republic, Slovenia
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Jitka SchneiderováHanka
Saša RašilovPetr
Jiří MacháčekJakub
Labina MitevskaVesna
Ivan TrojanOndřej
Dana SedlákováLenka
Mikuláš KřenRobert
Tatiana Dykováprostitutka
František Němecotec Hanky
Hana Maciuchovámatka Hanky
Zdeněk DvořáčekInjured
Zdeněk Suchýdrogový dealer
Emma Černámatka Roberta
David Matásekvlastník rádia
Pavla Drtinovádívka v baru
Jana Gýrová
Helena Brabcovásestřička
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