In Knoflíkari, ‘a black comedy about forgiveness’, little people squabble intimately with their fate. Six short and interwoven stories are linked by several recurrent characters who populate this strange, cruel and also optimistic and colourful world. The events take place on the night of 6 August 1995, exactly fifty years after the atom bomb fell.Two young people try to have sex during a journey by taxi. The next customer in the cab is a man who wants to catch his wife committing adultery. Fortunately for him, the woman he catches is not his wife. Ironically enough it is the wife of the unknowing taxi-driver. And the adulterous woman he was looking for is the one who used the taxi for her passionate love encounter. There are other stories too in this cinematographic mosaic about today’s world.The film soon acquired cult status after its screening in the Czech Republic. Historic facts, fiction, science fiction and cinema vérité are linked together in a virtuoso way. Petr Zelenka was represented last year in Rotterdam in the Fake programme with Happy End, a ‘documentary’ portrait of a Czech pop group.
