First Look: Up and Down
Release Date: February 25, 2005
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Jan Hrebjk
Producer: Ondrej
Screenwriter: Jan Hrebjk & Petr Jarchovsky
Cast: Petr Forman, Emilia Vasaryova, Jan Triska, Ingrid
Timkova, & Kristyna Liska -Bokova
Synopsis:
In the dead of the night, near the Czech-Slovak border, two smugglers
discover their truckload of illegal Indian immigrants have left a baby
behind. In a small Prague apartment, Franta (Jiri Machacek) and Mila (Natasa
Burger) dream of having a child, but Franta - on probation because of
his soccer hooliganism past - is not allowed to adopt, and Mila is unable
to conceive. After cashing in on her savings, Mila decides to buy a baby
from a pawnshop that fronts a den of thieves and pickpockets. Meanwhile,
an unusual family reunion is taking place: Academy professor Otto (Jan
Triska) collapses while teaching, prompting his estranged son Martin (Petr
Forman, son of director Milos) to return to Prague from Australia to see
his father and his mother, Vera (Emilia Vasaryova), long separated from
Otto whom she still pines for. Otto is now living with the beautiful and
much younger Hana (Ingrid Timkova), who works in a refugee aid center
helping immigrants to adjust to their new lives.
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