Custom Tailored Death

An agitated man gets off the night train. He approaches the station buffet, orders food, a drink, and tells the waiter: “And then, once I’ve eaten, call the police. I killed Alfréd Blum. Now. Just a moment ago.” A drama about the consequences of the economic crisis during the first Czechoslovak Republic, depicted through the tragic fate of two people from different social classes. Alfréd Blum, the owner of a renowned tailor’s shop decides to hire a person to kill him in order to save his family from bankruptcy with the money from his life insurance.

CS, 1979, 84 min.; sk / en sub