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THE LITTLE KEY

by Ján Novák

synopsis

A teenage couple breaks into a deserted old baroque fortress, formerly a communist and Nazi prison, to spend a romantic night together. Later on they find they are not alone, and slowly they realize that they have gone back in time to the Stalinist era in Czechoslovakia. Escape. Capture. Interrogation. Torture of the innocents by electrical current. The boy manage to make a dramatic escape from the prison and return back to 2009, while his girlfriend remains imprisoned in the past. Nobody believes when he tries to explain what happened. Finally he meets his girlfriend, who is now in her seventies.

international title: The Little Key
original title: Klicek
country: Czech Republic
year: 2009
genre: fiction
directed by: Ján Novák
film run: 70'
release date: CZ 13/08/2009
screenplay: Ján Novák, Šárka Horáková
cast: Jan Přeučil, Tomáš Šulaj, Petra Vlčková, Norbert Lichý, Stanislav Zindulka, Eva Hrušková, Jožka Kubánik, Roman Svoboda
cinematography by: Patrik Hoznauer
film editing: Jaromír Vašek
producer: Pavel Paleček
production: Stilus Press
backing: Czech State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography
distributor: Bontonfilm

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