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Honza buys a house in the foothills on the outskirts of a village, and there he settles in with his wife Marketa and his daughter Anyna. Honza works in the woods as a forest labourer repairing roads and enclosures, and cutting wood to sell. Marketa earns a living as a masseuse and alternative healer, making use of various mind-altering plants and mushrooms, which leads to conflict with the old inhabitants and eventually with drug enforcement. Daughter Anyna attends a faraway school where her grades deteriorate as she wanders the woods learning from nature rather than her textbooks. A conservative farmer named Papos spends the year raising his crops, hunting for wild boar, and sitting in the pub drinking beer. His wife Vlasta is a forest worker who, along with the other village women, plants trees and mows woodland weeds. Her son Ludva graduated in forestry; he lives in a cabin in the middle of the woods and is employed as assistant to the local forest ranger. While hunting varmints one night, he runs into the vegetarian wood nymph Anyna...
HD | 105´ | © 2012
director(s): Tomáš Vorel
producer(s): Czech Television, VOREL FILM
scriptwriter(s): Tomáš Vorel, Bára Schlesinger
director of photography: Tomáš Vorel
cast: Anna Linhartová, Tomáš Vorel jr., Tomáš Hanák, Bára Schlesinger, Bolek Polívka, Eva Holubová and others
rights available: TV, Video, Internet
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English, German