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Marcela (Aňa Geislerová) is an attractive wife and mother of two children in her thirties. Her husband Jarda (Roman Luknár) has a car shop, where he transforms stolen cars to sumptuous vehicles. ( Fiddles wmv 630KB)

The family is in a financial and personal crisis after the floods. Only the sexual dependency of the couple keeps them together
( About sex , wmv 360KB) the obstinate endeavor of Marcela’s somehow alienated mother-in-law (Emília Vášáryová) ( 3, wmv 790KB).

One day Marcela looses her patience and she leaves with her children to her mother’s (Jana Brejchová). But there they are subjected to the mental terror of the step-father Richard (Jiří Schmitzer) ( On visit ! wmv 2MB).

When Marcela is on the lowest, she meets a much older man (Josef Abrhám), from whom Jarda’s gang stole a car ( At the station wmv 1.1MB). Evžen is rich and what’s more noble and cultivated.
( Ferrari wmv 1.1MB). He lives in Tuscany and he owns a restituted villa in the Czech Republic. The Beauty, tested by destiny, sees the possibility of a better life with him ( A better life wmv 900KB). Will Marcela withstand the family dependence and the sexual addiction bounding her to her „rehabilitated“ husband?

The tragicomedy, in which you can see our greatest stars, is accompanied by the music of Radůza ( Beauty in trouble , wmv 6MB), Glen Hansard ( Morning wmv 13.7MB) and
Aleš Březina ( A path towards a good soul , wmv 3MB).

 

Beauty in Trouble (Robert Graves)

Beauty in trouble flees to the good angel
On whom she can rely
To pay her cab-fare, run a steaming bath,
Poultice her bruised eye;

Will not at first, whether for shame or caution,
Her difficulty disclose;
Until he draws a cheque book from his plumage,
Asking her how much she owes;

(Breakfast in bed: coffee and marmalade,
Toast, eggs, orange-juice,
After a long, sound sleep - the first since when? -
And no word of abuse.)

Loves him less only than her saint-like mother,
Promises to repay
His loans and most seraphic thoughtfulness
A million-fold one day.

Beauty grows plump, renews her broken courage
And, borrowing ink and pen,
Writes a news-letter to the evil angel
(Her first gay act since when?):

The fiend who beats, betrays and sponges on her,
Persuades her white is black,
Flaunts vespertilian wing and cloven hoof;
And soon will fetch her back.

Virtue, good angel, is its own reward:
Your dollars were well spent.
But would you to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediment?