Mr. and Mrs. Stodola (CinEast Festival)

Festival CinEast

Mr. and Mrs. Stodola

Manželé stodolovi. Tchéquie-Slovaquie 2023 | Petr Hátle | vostEN | 100' | digital | Cast : Jan Hájek, Lucie Žáčková, Jelena Juklová, Dana Syslová, Barbara Lukešová

►First Feature Competition, Black Nights 2023

Mr. and Mrs. Stodola, an ordinary Czech couple in a quiet village, began a killing spree in the early 2000s, unnoticed by neighbors and police investigating local pensioners' deaths. This is an intimate and eerie psychological true-crime drama.

« A world away from cinema’s usual approach to serial killers, Mr And Mrs Stodola offers only a dead-end village’s notion of glamour, and not a hint of superior intelligence or deep-rooted psychological compulsion. Killing is just a means to an end, carried out messily, part of a poorly planned life rather than a true route to a better one…. Hollywood feeds us fantasies, but this is the real thing.» (Eye For Film)