Czech Film Center

Synopsis

This documentary about the people of Blšan is seen through the eyes of Mr. Tíska, the local one-room school principal and an amateur filmmaker, creator of a movie about 'the smallest community in the world with a first league soccer team'. He guides us through an eerie village marked by Communism, a hamlet awakened from its lethargy once every two weeks by a first league soccer match. 'Meetings were also held in the country', claims Tíska, 'but executions and trials took place in town. A person had to be careful in the country if he didn't want to be denounced, but when he went to the doctor he knew he wouldn't pay for prescriptions; and the bus cost a crown fifty, not ten like today.'