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An ironic view of our present-day society – a girl “adores” her showman idol to distraction and then comes a day when pure coincidence and manipulation from the media bring him closer to her than she ever dreamed. Susan is fifteen and is in boarding school, and like most of her peers she adores a popular actor and presenter who is very much in the public eye. But she is more timid than her friends and never really gets a chance to get closer to him. Not even at a concert. By chance she gets hold of his card with telephone number, but she can’t pluck up the courage to call him. Finally her friend persuades her to send him a text and her photo. The actor has a fatal accident while working on location in the Caribbean; the tabloids get hold of the texted message and photo and fabricate a tremendous love story. Before Susan realizes what is happening, she finds herself in the turmoil of show business. When the actor turns up alive at some distant island, Susan tries to stop the wheels of the media and makes a public announcement that it had all been a fabrication and that she had lied. But the tabloids and the majority of their readers don’t believe that and so the media-fabricated story lives on …
SD | 89´ | © 2008
director(s): Jaroslav Pozzi
producer(s): Czech Television
scriptwriter(s): Jaroslav Pozzi
director of photography: Vladimír Holomek
cast: Adriana Neubauerová, Tomáš Matonoha, Sabina Laurinová, Zuzana Pešková and others
rights available: TV, Video, Internet
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English
other data: m/e track