Das Ohr (1990)

Das Ohr: Directed by Karel Kachyna. With Jirina Bohdalová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Gustav Opocenský, Miroslav Holub. After coming home from a Party gathering one night, a Czech official becomes convinced that he is about to be the subject of a political purge and tries to do damage control, while also dealing with his turbulent marriage.

“Iu0026#39;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 u0026quot;cliftonsu0026quot; i.e. secret police (get me a salmon, thatu0026#39;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. Itu0026#39;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”