Up and Down

Release	February 25, 2005 (Limited)
Cast	Jirí Machácek, Petr Forman, Emília Vásáryová, Jan Triska, Ingrid Timková, Kristýna Boková, Natasa Burger, Jaroslav Dusek
Director	Jan Hrebejk
Writer	Jan Hrebejk, Petr Jarchovsky
Genres	Comedy
Studio	Sony Pictures Classics / Mongrel Media
Length	112 mins.
Website	www.sonyclassics.com/upanddown

Synopsis

In the dead of the night, near the Czech-Slovak border, two smugglers discover their truckload of illegal Indian immigrants have left a baby behind.

In a small Prague apartment, Franta (Jiri Machacek) and Mila (Natasa Burger) dream of having a child, but Franta – on probation because of his soccer hooliganism past – is not allowed to adopt, and Mila is unable to conceive. After cashing in on her savings, Mila decides to buy a baby from a pawnshop that fronts a den of thieves and pickpockets.

Meanwhile, an unusual family reunion is taking place: Academy professor Otto (Jan Triska) collapses while teaching, prompting his estranged son Martin (Petr Forman, son of director Milos) to return to Prague from Australia to see his father and his mother, Vera (Emilia Vasaryova), long separated from Otto whom she still pines for. Otto is now living with the beautiful and much younger Hana (Ingrid Timkova), who works in a refugee aid center helping immigrants to adjust to their new lives.

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