Buttoners

It is a dark comedy about ordinary people's struggle with the bizarre world that we live in today. A world full of mistakes, perversions, coincidence and miracles. A world where everyone seeks redemption.
The film opens with an unusually sombre version of the Door's song The End, which already in the beginning reflects the message of the film. Knoflikari is divided into six short stories, where five of them take place the night before August 6th, 1995, exactly fifty years after the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima. As in Altman's Short Cuts we follow several different people and their destinies, all told through separate stories which are tied together through circumstance and coincidence. The truth is not revealed until in the following episode.
We meet a man whose biggest passion is spitting on trains. A man who uses his false teeth to compulsively snatch buttons from sofas and armchairs. There is the pilot Robert Lewis, who flew the bomber over Hiroshima. A homicidal psychologist, and many more. The first of the six episodes takes place 1945 in the Japanese town of Kokum, where four Japanese people sit around condemning the bad weather and the increasing rain. What they are
not aware of is that this particular weather is what made the plane carrying the bomb to change its course from Kokum, the originally intended target, to Hiroshima.
In this dark satire there is still room for charm, happiness and hope.
As always, the flashes of light that manage to push through look even brighter in the dark.
JOHAN NYLANDER

Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Orig. titel
Knoflíkari: Medverkande
Jiri Kodet,Borivoj Navratil,Rudolf Hrusinsky: Producent
Elexej Guha: Manus
Petr Zelenka: Foto
Miro Gabor: Musik
Ales Brezina: Talat språk
Czech