Confidant, The2012

Director
Juraj Nvota

Acters

Jirí Mádl (Adam Horný)
Michaela Majerníková (Eva Horná)
Maciej Stuhr (Jacek)
Jan Budar (Commander Rybarik)
Ondrej Vetchý (Commander Dravec)
Katarzyna Chmara (Polish woman)

Adam, a young radio ham, is forced to save his girlfriend Eve from official harassment by signing a “contract with the devil,” becoming a secret police agent wiretapping people to obtain compromising materials to be used against them.
Adam and Eva love each other but the times are conspiring to prevent them from fulfilling their dreams. So the new husband decides to take a job that will secure an apartment for the happy couple – but might also break them apart. On top of that, he’s carrying a burden that could, if the authorities wish it, turn against him and his loved ones. Set in a period when even liking Led Zeppelin didn’t mean that people could joke with you about the Soviet Union, this dramatic story presents a typical hero who, although he yields to the advantages associated with working as a secret agent, tries to maintain a limit: to accept things that help him and his family but that don’t hurt others. Given the nature of his profession, however, this isn’t entirely possible, and so sooner or later he can expect to discover, with regret, whose life he turned upside down in order to live more contentedly. The picture shows its protagonist as an essentially good person, emphasizing the compromises demanded by the times, and why so many were willing to make them.
“Hilarious visual and well-presented atmosphere.” – Fandimefilmu.cz