WRONG SIDE UP
[Pribehy Obycejnèho Sílensví]

This highly entertaining comedy tells the story of Petr, a put-upon everyman stuck in a dead-end job as a freight worker in the Prague airport. Outside of the doldrums of work, Petr copes with his father's strange "artistic" performances, his mother's obsessive collection of second-hand clothes and his boss' sexual proclivity for mannequins. Struggling to make sense of his increasingly bizarre life, Petr learns that the workaday world isn't such a bad thing.

DIR/SCR Petr Zelenka, from his play Tales of Common Insanity; PROD Pavel Strnad and Milan Kuchynka. Czech Republic/Germany/Slovakia, 2005, color, 107 min. In Czech with English subtitles. NOT RATED

A graduate of the Czech film school FAMU, director Petr Zelenka worked initially as a script editor at the Barrandov Film Studios. In 1998, his feature film BUTTONERS [Knoflikari] received four Czech Lions (Czech Academy Awards), including Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Film. His next feature directorial effort, YEAR OF THE DEVIL [Rod d'Abla], won the Crystal Globe at the 2002 edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and took home six Czech Lions, including Best Director and Best Film.

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