An Earthly Paradise for the Eyes

Directed by Irena Pavlásková

With Vilma Cibulková, Tereza Ramba, Dana Marková, Miroslav Etzler and Ondřej Vetchý

Adolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalization years of the 1970s, and then she also has to face the reality that her father is a well-known actor disavowed by the regime. Although he abandoned the family years before, his existence casts an ominous shadow over the lives of not only Gábina, but also her older sister and mother, who are trying to find a civilized way through the social mire of the times.