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THE PRAGUE ORGY
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY PHILIP ROTH
(THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA)

DIRECTOR: Irena Pavlásková

PRODUCERS: Michal Kráčmer, Viktor Schwarcz

WRITERS: Irena Pavlásková, Philip Roth

CAST: Ksenia Rappoport, Jonas Chernick

THE PRAGUE ORGY has just won 'Senior Prize' at the Avanca 2020 Film Festival in Portugal.
Click to go to AVANCA.

Synopsis:
Based on the classic American Author Philip Roth’s novella and set in 1976, famous American writer Nathan Zuckerman (Roth‘s alter-ego), is challenged by Czech immigrant Sisovsky who implores him to retrieve valuable manuscripts from communist Czechoslovakia. The writer accepts this dangerous mission, where his every step is observed by secret police. Once in Prague, he meets Sisovsky‘s flamboyant and wild ex-wife Olga who is in possession of the manuscripts. The evolving relationship between the hot-headed Olga and Nathan is a  confrontation between two worlds - the repressed East and free West. But, Olga won‘t give up the manuscripts to Nathan so easily…


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DRAMA
Czech Republic
COMPLETED
ENGLISH, CZECH
2019
113 Mins