Summary
Karel Smyczek's unjustly forgotten film shares the fate of those projects that were realised before the Velvet Revolution but only reached the audience after November 1989. For its time, the comedy The Sick White Elephant was a bold undertaking, but after the fall of communism it has faded into obscurity as a work that criticized the former regime only with cautious distance. The protagonists of the allegorical narrative are a husband and wife who decide to start a new life after their adult daughter leaves home. Marie would like to move out of Prague, but Konrád (Oldřich Navrátil) just needs to start running, following the example of men suffering from a midlife crisis. In addition, he accepts a job as director of a cultural house, which has not even been completed yet. Due to the differing opinions of various interested parties, all of Konrád's efforts fail. The house - like a sick white elephant - is unable to exist.
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