Walking Too Fast

Czechoslovakia, 1982. The totalitarian regime seems invincible. Antonín, a member of the secret police, is full of unfocused rage and everything around him – his work and family life – wears him down and bores him. He becomes fixated on Klára, a girl he has no hope of winning. He doesn’t know what he wants but he wants it badly. There is no love in it or any other kind of genuine passion – only a burning desire to fulfil the fantasy of escaping from the cage of his boring and meaningless life. Antonín’s senseless struggle to have Klára for himself not only turns him against the enemies of the regime but also against his own people and system itself. When Antonín breaks the rules of the organisation he serves however, it is neither a civic or even political gesture, but rather purely personal and frenzied act of rebellion.

Written by: Ondrej Stindl
Original Title: Pouta
Polish Title: Związani
Country & Year of Production: Czech Republic, Slovakia 2009
Director of Photography: Jaromír Kačer
Music: Tomáš Vtípil
Sound: Marek Hart, Jakub Čech
Producer: Vratislav Šlajer
Produced by: Bionaut Films
Cast:
Ondřej Malý, Kristína Farkašová, Martin Finger,Luboš Veselý, Lukáš
Latinák, Barbora Milotová, Oldřich Kaiser, Ivana Uhlířová, Iva
Pazderková, Jana Janěková, Jiří Štrébl, Roman Zach