Norbert Lichý

In the 1950s, police captain Hakl (Ivan Trojan) investigates a jewelry robbery in former Czechoslovakia. The case tangles, and Hakl must fight an enemy to save his family and himself.

Deals with the most famous criminal in Czech Republic, the lawyer who continuously tries to free him; the circle of people on both sides of the law who want to keep him in jail and his infamous escape from prison.

Amateur actors rehearsing "Pictures from the Insects' Life". The actors find themselves living out their characters' roles and hallucinating insects. "Insects", is intercut with the creative process of the film itself and intervie...

Inspired by true events of the 1989 Czech and Slovak Velvet Revolution and Václav Havel's controversial release of 23.000 prisoners.