Starting at 19:00
A normal and peaceful afternoon turns into a horrifying experience for a well-to-do family from a kitschy suburb of a satellite town when sleazy cosmetics salesmen Adam (Jiří Černý) and Sonia (Krystyna Pekala) knock on their door. Their initially friendly offers instantly turn into a pathological need to force their products on the mother (Kateřina Janečková), daughter (Zuzana Novotná) and her boyfriend (Šimon Holiš), until the situation escalates from a grovelling imposition to a fear for the bare lives of all three inhabitants of the house. However, the real reasons and motivations of the usurpers have yet to come to light.
Olomouc premiere of the short allegorical thriller Parabens with the author, crew and cast in attendance. The film was created with the enthusiasm of the Ostrava-Olomouc crew and gradually gained the involvement of actors who have been nominated for the Czech Lions for their work. The genre of the film is between absurd comedy and thriller and allegorically points out hypocrisy and ubiquitous consumerism fed by the insistence and predation of sellers of superfluous things.
short film, thriller/comedy
Czech Republic, 2022, 19 minutes
Directed by Michael Bukovanský
