Zenovo vedomie

Directed by Vido Horňák

With Ctibor Filčík, Štefan Kvietik, Emília Vášáryová, Magda Vášáryová and Martin Huba

Television adaptation of the novel by the Italian writer Italo Svevo. His hero is Zeno Cosini, the son of a merchant in Trieste. He is a type of useless person, defeated by life and incapable of action. The ironic insight with which the author draws a picture of the townspeople of Trieste at the turn of the century sounds like an accurate diagnosis of a social class that is doomed with its entire lifestyle and morality.