Death Made to Measure (Smrť šitá na mieru)

The story, set in the – at the first glance – glorious 1930s, speaks of a collapse leading to a tragicomically drastic solution. Blum (Müller), the owner of a tailoring business serving mostly the creme de la creme, suddenly finds himself drowning in debt. The financial crisis had hit and Blum’s family faces bankruptcy. The hundreds of thousands saved in his life insurance would be the way out, but he would have to die for this money to become accessible. But, trapped in a dead end street, Blum finds his death a viable solution; he just needs to find someone to carry it out. This film with a cast of well known names was adapted from a literary sketch by Hungarian writer and journalist Béla Illés and asks the timeless question – what would you do for your family’s survival? We can ponder that together with the characters accompanied by compositions by Zdeněk Liška, who appears several times in this year’s program. (bk)