Summary
Most films directed by Ivo Toman were politically engaged, but in 1978 the filmmaker also added a crime drama to his filmography. Miroslav Macháček excels in the role of a mentally ill man on the lam, Milan Pešek, who has run away from his brother who’d been looking after him. He lands a job in the Na vyhlídce Hotel but is soon suspected of having murdered a schoolgirl. Pešek confesses to the killing, but his brother proves to the police that his sibling is incapable of any violence. The search for a quiet refuge is far from over for Pešek, however… Ilja Racek and Slávka Budínová play the quarrelling married couple who run the remote hotel in this psychological tale. The part of the police investigator, Captain Koloušek, went to Josef Vinklář, who in the TV series Hříšní lidé města pražského (The Sinful People of Prague, 1968) had long portrayed Inspector Bouše.
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