THE RETRUN OF THE IDIOT
Czech Republic

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    Olga loves Emil who loves Anna who loves Robert. The Idiot loves everybody. And this is his problem. He loves them all, to the same extent. Frantisek, the Idiot, knows almost nothing and has never experienced much. He has spent a great deal of his life in an asylum and, thus, has a very simple view of the world. Now he is back once more to his relatives although they do not know of his existence.

     They are people that know only about their own life and relationships that are so very complicated and tangled that they eventually affect Frantisek. Conflicts between brothers, lovers, and couples are witnessed by him in situations that are strange, but amusing.

     With his naďve viewpoint on life, he is alone in understanding these people, apparently concerned exclusively with their own happiness. Although he can see at close quarters the maneuvers, treachery, and painful revelations that involve the family, he does not pass judgement on the attitudes and feelings of each one of them. Only one, however, able to understand him, can help him return.

   
 
DireCtor : Sasa Gedeon
Screemplay : Sasa Gedeon
Cinematographer : Stepán Kucera
Edition : Emmanuel Castro
Cast : Pavel Liska, Anna Geislerová, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Jirí Langmajer, Jirí Machácek
Producer : Petr Oukropec
Production : Negativ Ltd. Film Productions
World Sales : Negativ Ltd. Film Productions Svédská 21, 150 000, Prague 5, Czech Republic
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  Col., 100 min., 1999
 

Born on August 29, in 1970, in Prague. He studied at the Film Academy of Performing Arts where he was awarded the Josef Hlavka's Student Prize. He directed some award-winning university films before his first feature as director with Indian Summer, in 1995. The Return of the Idiot is his second feature.