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8.1/10   324 votes
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Director:
Karel Kachyna
Writers:
Karel Kachyna (writer)
Jan Procházka (screenplay)
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Release Date:
18 October 1990 (Hungary) more
Genre:
Drama
Plot:
Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Ear
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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
Czechoslovakia
Language:
Czech
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:12 | Finland:K-10 | Sweden:15

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13 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
chilling perfection, 24 March 2004
Author: (manfromgreen@hotmail.com) from Prague

I've seen this a couple of days ago in a tribute to Karel Kachyna who died recently. It is simply amazing. A well connected party/government (same thing) aparatchik and wife get driven back to their villa from a state reception to find their keys missing, house unlocked, without electricity, working telephone. They are being snippy with each other to start with, but when the man starts getting a little paranoid about the situation and starts getting little flashbacks from the reception (his immediate boss - a minister - and several colleagues are not present there, some ppl express mild suprise he is there himself, he is obviously not privy to certain hush-hush information, their chaffeur is missing and the place is full of "cliftons" i.e. secret police (get me a salmon, that's the red thing:)) they both really deteriorate into panic, accusssations, dragging long-forgotten things into open... The point is they know they are being listened to, but their safe haven are the toilets, the bathroom and the kitchen where the bugging devices are not ordinarily placed... but not for long I cannot imagine how did Mr. K imagine this thing would be released ever. It's a miracle it only got shelved and can remind us nowadays how bad it really was...It is one of the most thruthfull portrayals of uncertanities of love and life back then

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