28.07.2025

At Czech Film Wednesday on August 6, we will be showing the absolute cult film of the 2000s: "Samotáři" (Loners).

In various loosely connected episodes, the film shows bizarre young people in Prague in the late 1990s who are all a little lost. They first have to come to terms with the great freedom that the advent of capitalism has brought. All the characters are in search of happiness and togetherness, but individualism and fear of commitment always stand in the way. Sometimes it's just the excessive consumption of marijuana and the associated weaknesses in short-term memory. One wants to understand life by constantly filming everything and helps his friends to finally break up. The other desperately chases after his childhood sweetheart, who must want him now that he has become a successful doctor. She, in turn, suddenly finds herself at her parents' house as an ethnographic object of study, where Japanese people want to experience a real Czech family.

The film's cult status is also underlined by the fact that various quotes and characters from the film have found their way into everyday Czech culture and are quoted from time to time.

(This is an automatic translation by DeepL Translator.)