2002

Pavel is an amiable loser, teaching at a film institute. He sells out his family apartment and accommodates his mother in a nursing house for elderly people to start filming his first picture. The bank, however, he deposits his money in, goes bankrupt and he can’t afford to pay back the mob the loan taken to buy negative film stock. As for his family, the relations have for a long time turned into a series of stupid and ridiculous misunderstandings. His wife cuckolds him, all his attempts to take up with his son fail. The friendship with a neighbor boy ends in a classic knock-out. A dubious partnership with an old colleague from the movie guild ends in a total fiasco before the Mafia. The only place he feels comfortable is the students’ film hall where old pictures are screened. He often fancies himself a film character. Pavel starts behaving as such and gradually loses any sense of reality.