Story from a Housing Estate
Tragicomic portrait of a new housing estate whose inhabitants are not only faced with the uniformity, ugliness and defects of their new dwellings and the lack of infrastructure, but also with cheating, lying, distrust, unreliability and weakness.
- Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliště
- Czechoslovakia 1979
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- English
- 96 min.
- 12+
An old countryman is looking for a prefabricated house in a sprawling Prague housing estate to live in with his daughter's family. Most of the people have already moved in, but the streets and houses are not yet marked. Even the sidewalks have not been built, so people have to wade through mud on the giant construction site. The kindly grandfather is just one of hundreds or even thousands of people who are living their small or bigger everyday dramas in this confusion: six-year-old Pepiček has run away from kindergarten to meet his father for the first time, the members of the building committee refuse to accept the new flats with many defects, the young girl Sonia is – at least for a while – looking forward to her future role as a mother. And an old lady is watching everything from behind the window, but she may be dead…
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