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The Open Countryside of a Lonely Man

Apr 4, 2002

★ 8.0

Overview

A chance encounter between a young student looking for a summer job and a slightly desolate man, a generation older, unable to overcome his chronic, dirt-ridden loneliness.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

FAMU

Česká televize

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Cast

Zdenál

Jiří Vymětal

Zdeněk

Zdeněk Marek

Boženka

Anna Slezáková

Franta

Stanislav Bartoš

Prostitute

Lenka Blažková

(uncredited)

Leo Hanuš

(uncredited)

Robert Ptáček

(uncredited)

Pavel Göbl

(uncredited)

Jiří Melcher

Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Archie Shepp’s “Things Have Got to Change.” Filmed in Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey by activist-turned-filmmaker Bernard Nicolas as his first project at UCLA, this short film poetically envisions the fantasy life of a hotel worker whose daydreams provide an escape from workplace indignities. —Allyson Nadia Field

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