The distinctive artist, typographer, and writer Josef Váchal is known to the public primarily for his Blood Novel. The surrealistic exuberance of this defense of 19th-century pulp fiction caught the attention of Jaroslav Brabec and his colleagues, who found a corresponding image of 20th-century "trash." The authors' interest focuses primarily on the silent film era, with a journey through the history of cinema continuing through the advent of sound film to the present day (auteur cinema of the 1960s, modern horror), formally employing techniques such as tinted film. The versatile parody intertwines a colorful plot with the story of the author (Váchal/Paseky), who comments on and creates his book, and is further split in the plot into the characters of Fragonard and the Master. As with Váchal, reality increasingly enters the fiction, so that the only "happy ending" turns out to be the artist's finished work.
Ondřej Pavelka
as Paseka / Master / Fragonard
Klára Jirsáková
as Elzevíra
Raoul Schránil
as Prince Pedro di Rudibanera
Jakub Saic
as Kurt
Vladimír Marek
as Ignác
Veronika Freimanová
as Kuba's Wife
Jiřina Jelenská
as Father Bruna
Rudolf Hrušínský
as Kuba
Barbora Leichnerová
as Hanička
Pavel Pípal
as Kalina
Jaromír Dulava
as Třasoň
Barbora Hrzánová
as Honoluluan
