Plots(1)
Using new audiovisual possibilities, the filmmaker presents his virtual fantasy and personal experience of a journey between life and death. Images almost without words are shot predominantly with a standard 35 mm camera. What goes on in the conscious and subconscious mind of a person after being put under anesthesia for open-heart surgery? Is there a tunnel leading away from life? Is there a light at the end of that tunnel? And why precisely now has George Bush come to Prague? 'Before being put under I imagined I would see my whole life played backwards, but instead of that I suddenly... There's a tube in my mouth and I want to know: Am I in another world? Has the operation started? Is it in the middle? Is it over? How did it go? Is that all?' A powerless hand tries to grasp reality. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Zuzana Stivínová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Black Barons (1992)
Chef Speciality (1999) (TV movie)
Lost Gate (2012) (series)
Jan Němec
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Murdering the Devil (1970)
The Ferrari Dino Girl (2009)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
George W. Bush
USA
Best movies:
Curveball (2020) - a.f.
Die Hard 4 (2007) - a.f.
The Big Short (2015) - a.f.