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Personalities of Czech society, culture and art offer a glimpse into their libraries.
Tůma's film is a sovereign cinematographic space, which, broken up into many chapters, takes an unconventional look at contemporary Czech society. The opening political grotesque on the election of the President is drowned out by the ecstatic ramblings of philosophising (and chattering) fragments turning on the sought-out axis of life and the world, and especially the inward-looking images full of colourful objectivity and charming humour that is elevated to the level of pure poetry.
On the eve of the 1905 revolution in a Ukrainian village, a liberal landowner refuses to distribute land to peasants, leading to an uprising. To protect his reputation, he calls in gendarmes, claiming he supports democracy but must care for his animals during the riot. Based on the novella of the same name by M. M. Kotsiubinsky.
