Archive of films Cage / Klec
Czech Republic
2019, 87 min
Section:
Czech Films 2018–2019
Year: 2019
She’s a lonely, trusting pensioner who’s worried that no-one needs her anymore. He’s an indebted young man with a secret. Jiřina Bohdalová and Kryštof Hádek star in this unpredictable psychological thriller as two people who end up imprisoned in a ground-floor flat. But perhaps that’s not such a bad thing after all.
Synopsis
“Things get pretty dull when you pass eighty. You wait and you wait, but you don’t even know what you’re waiting for,” says Květa Galová, a former teacher struggling with solitude in a ground-floor flat somewhere on the outskirts of Prague. She fills her days looking after the local church and its resident priest, but he is soon sent elsewhere. Just when it seems that no-one needs her anymore a mysterious young man steps into her life, claiming to be a distant relative. While Jiří Strach’s psychological thriller revolves around the confrontation between two individuals with an intriguing past, the setting of this intimate tale also takes on a central role after the characters find it very difficult to leave.
Jan Škoda
About the director

Jiří Strach (b. 1973, Prague). Selected filmography: The Murder of the Green Family (2002, TV film), An Angel of the Lord (2005), Operation Silver A (2007, TV film), Oldies but Goldies (2012), Eights (2014, TV film), Labyrinth (2015, TV series), An Angel of the Lord 2 (2016), The Cage (2019)
Contacts
Czech Television - Telexport
Kavčí hory, 140 70, Praha 4
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 261 137 047
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.ceskatelevize.cz
About the film
Color, DCP
Section: | Czech Films 2018–2019 |
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Director: | Jiří Strach |
Screenplay: | Marek Epstein |
Dir. of Photography: | Martin Šec |
Music: | Ondřej Gregor Brzobohatý |
Editor: | Jan Mattlach |
Art Director: | David Voborský, Katarína Hollá |
Producer: | Jaroslav Sedláček |
Production: | Česká televize |
Cast: | Jiřina Bohdalová, Kryštof Hádek, Viktor Preiss, Vilma Cibulková, David Švehlík |
Sales: | Czech Television - Telexport |
Guests

Petra Štovíková
Festival Organizer, Producer, TV Representative

Jaroslav Sedláček
Producer

Marek Epstein
Screenwriter

Radim Hladík
Film Crew

Jiřina Bohdalová
Actress

Jan Mattlach
Film Editor

Jiří Strach
Film Director, Film Director