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This film was made for television, and is dedicated to the filmmakers of Czechoslovakia.
It is structured around a young couple's first sexual encounter which is witnessed by three men. Our attention is upon the three men —a lazy bum, a voyeur, and his aggressive cousin —and on what their reactions to the incident tell us about them, rather than upon the love-making which is explicitly, but delicately handled. They seem to be aimless wanderers, who can find little to do with their time, and so find a means to entertainment in secondhand experiences.
The Suburb is a film of moods, slowly changing from light to dark as we gradually become aware of the futility of these men's lives.
The Submerged Submarine
Utopená ponorka
MIFF 1973
SUMMER LIGHTNING
Strohfeuer
MIFF 1973