Love in the Grave

Filmed over a number of years David Vondráčeks powerful documentary records the lives of Jan and Jana a homeless couple who find refuge in a cemetery in the Prague borough of Strašnice Living on food from garbage containers and trading the books and porn magazines they find there they nonetheless live lives of independence love and humour Jana a former prostitute tries to visit her daughter while Jan visits his aged mother after many years but both fail to reestablish links with their past Through identification with their everyday world Vondráček reaches the human reality and complexity beneath the surface a world not so different from that of the supposedly successful Eventually they are expelled from their temporary home with heartbreaking consequences Vondráčeks awardwinning documentary reveals the breadth of experience even vibrancy surviving in the world of the dispossessed