Heiners Filmseiten – Beauty in Trouble (en)

Beauty in Trouble (Kráska v nesnázích)

German title: Kráska v nesnázích (Die Schöne in Not)
Greek title: Επικίνδυνη ομορφιά
Russian title: Красавица в беде
Original title: Kráska v nesnázích

Alternative titles:
Epikindyni omorfia

Tragicomedy – Czech Republic
Production year: 2005
Movie length: 110 minutes

Director: Jan Hřebejk (Jan Hrebejk)
Writer: Jan Hřebejk, Petr Jarchovský
Cinematograph: Jan Malíř (Jan Malír)
Music: Aleš Březina (Ales Brezina)

Movie description:

A flood in Prague has damaged Marcela and Jarda’s home. He behaves boorishly over their son’s asthma so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom’s, a possessive woman whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there, Jarda is jailed for possession of a stolen car (he’s a mechanic who’s turned his garage into a chop shop). Benes, the urbane man whose car it is, befriends Marcela, and soon she has options. Jarda’s mother and her mother push her in opposite directions. Jarda has animal magnetism, Benes offers security, and her own body and mind may be at cross purposes. The Cold War is over, Czechs are free to behave well or badly. What’s best?

Marcela leaves her husband Jarda and takes her kids to live with her mother and stepfather. But his intolerance and psychological pressure only make things worse. Then she meets Evžen, one of Jarda’s childhood friends, an oversensitive loner who emigrated and became a well-balanced and resolute man. He is a successful architect who only returns to the Czech Republic to sell some property he got back in the restitution process. Evžen offers Marcela a new lease on life. And thus Marcela finds herself faced with a great internal dilemma ...

Boy Actors