Jan Svoboda

Národ sobě aneb České moře v 18 přílivech

"Situation of the Street" - An experimental study about Czech life, focusing on Prague's National Street, its businesses and the varied people who frequent it.

The Joke

In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.

A Report on the Party and the Guests

A picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up.