Summary A bus arrives to the village, carrying a group of traveling actors who begin to perform passion plays from the Bible. Editor Alena (Kveta Fialová), lover of one of the actors, Baritone (Josef Bek), comes to see him. An electricity power failure interrupts the performance. Podgy, spiteful Joker (Jan Libícek) spurs his friends to start spreading news of some kind of imminent danger that no one can escape except inside the wagons that have suddenly turned up at the station. The train dispatcher's wife misses her husband. In the darkness of the night, villagers yield to panic fueled by the malicious Joker. View more details
Directed : Evald Schorm
Written : Zdenek Mahler Evald Schorm
Stars : Josef Bek Václav Babka Jan Libícek Karel Belohradský
Genres : Mystery Drama
Release date : May 31, 1990
Countries of origin : Czechoslovakia
Language : Czech
Production companies : Filmové studio Barrandov
Summary A bus arrives to the village, carrying a group of traveling actors who begin to perform passion plays from the Bible. Editor Alena (Kveta Fialová), lover of one of the actors, Baritone (Josef Bek), comes to see him. An electricity power failure interrupts the performance. Podgy, spiteful Joker (Jan Libícek) spurs his friends to start spreading news of some kind of imminent danger that no one can escape except inside the wagons that have suddenly turned up at the station. The train dispatcher's wife misses her husband. In the darkness of the night, villagers yield to panic fueled by the malicious Joker. View more details
Genres : Mystery Drama
Release date : May 31, 1990
Countries of origin : Czechoslovakia
Language : Czech
Production companies : Filmové studio Barrandov
