Prague (Prag)

Arriving at the Socialist era concrete pile Hotel Praha in the midst of slow-burning marital conflict are the Hojholts, impassive Christoffer (Mads Mikkelsen, the Pusher trilogy) and nervous Maja (Kira's Reason star and Madsen muse Stine Stengade). They're attractive, yet simultaneously tense and wary after 14 years together. The mood isn't lightened by the purpose of their trip: Christoffer's been summoned by a lawyer (Borivoj Navratil, from festival fave Buttoners) to claim the body of his estranged father, which he's determined to inter in the family plot.

Their cultural dislocation quickly borders on the comically absurd, and Christoffer begins to have almost surreal encounters with the famously hidebound Czechs.

In short order, Maja announces she's in love with someone else. Though clearly furious, Christoffer broods and eventually develops an odd relationship with Elena, his late father's housekeeper (Jana Plodkova).

Unfortunately, they're stuck in Prague, as the corpse has gone missing on the wrong flight. Throughout his passage from tortured to, well ... less tortured, Christoffer hears the same weary advice from just about everyone he meets: "Life is hard, you can't have it all." In time, fresh revelations from Maja and the attorney jar Christoffer into a rare - and intense - emotional response. [Source: Variety]

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