Summary
At the start of his career, psychological dramas were also part of the focus of director Jiří Svoboda. Among them is his film Oddechový čas (Time for a Breathe, 1977), set in an unusual environment – a factory producing suction dredgers. The story’s protagonist, however, is unexceptional: he’s a workaholic supervising manager named Jan Ondrák (played by the flawless Radoslav Brzobohatý) who is in over his head. He has become so immersed in solving work problems that he starts to overlook the needs of his employees, students and his own family. Ondrák’s eyes are opened to this fact at the moment when the factory workers, in the course of a single night, fix a broken excavator made for some Dutch customers... Debuting in the role of Ondrák’s son Petr, who helps his insensitive father become more humane, is the then 18-year-old actor David Prachař.
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