Summary
Director Otakar Fuka often made genre-themed films. In terms of the Czech crime genre, his previous films include the detective stories Svědectví mrtvých očí (Dead Eye Testimony, 1971) and Zlaté rybky (Gold Fish, 1977). Fuka added to this in 1986 with Černá punčocha (The Black Stocking), a story inspired by a real-life serial killer who caused havoc throughout Prague and northern Bohemia during the 1980s. Fifty-year-old Miki Opatovský (Milan Karpíšek) has spent his entire life serving as a hairstylist to beautiful models. But the provocative photographer Monika stirs a latent desire within Miki to kill. Gradually, the hairstylist is gripped with a murderous obsession. The strangler, who on the surface comes across as a quiet, decent man, transforms into a phantom who commits heinous sexually-motivated crimes… Not even his wife (Luba Skořepová) has any suspicion of Miki’s dark deeds. Vítězslav Jandák and Petr Pospíchal portray two police investigators tasked with tracking down the elusive killer.
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