The film presents the case of the so-called Orlická Dam murders in the early 1990s considered the biggest criminal case of the post-communist era in the Czech Republic. The group of perpetrators murdered five individuals between the years of 1991–1993. The Police retrieved three bodies from Orlická Dam, two were sealed in barrels containing lye. The main protagonist of the film is the former member of an elite police unit who works as a bodyguard for the gangster Chvalkovský and has a hand in arms dealing. This crude man, acknowledging only the power and pleasures of life, proceeds with his pals – a brutal murdered and simple-minded friend – to do away with inconvenient people. The murderers were sentenced in 1997 after an investigation of crimininologists shed light on the case. – A two part television version was also made.
Karel Hrubeš
Ludvík Křížek
Iveta
Láďa Rejsek
Vychodil
Nazim Al Fargali
Irena
Igor Chvalkovský
Včelová
Věra
Doktor
Aleš Bebjak
Aleš Bebjak
major Smola
major Smola
major Hošek
major Pouzar
Charvát
Reiner
Lumír Ketner
Vlastík Lorka
Božena Rejsková
Otylka Fialová
otrok
Gräbner
ministr
Leoreto Ameti
kněz
nadporučík Pavlovič
prodejce aut
Jitka
muž z herny
Marcel
Vlasta Vychodilová
Alena
René
Barborka
Jarda
Karin
policista
policista
policista
policista
policista
redaktor
detektiv
Lenka Kordulová (fotografka)
Jiří Chlumecký, Zdeněk Plášek, Dětský pěvecký sbor při ZŠ Karla Dvořáka v Orlové (Music Conducted by Pavla Bjalončíková)
Sametoví vrazi
Sametoví vrazi
The New Breed!
film
featuretheatrical distribution
crime, thriller
Czech Republic
2005
2003—2004
start of filming 18 August 2003
end of filming 3 October 2003
premiere 27 January 2005 /recommended for 15 and over/ (multiplex Palace Cinemas Slovanský dům, Praha)
...they'll drag you with them...
ČESKÁ TELEVIZE, Televizní studio Ostrava (ČESKÁ TELEVIZE), Centrum dramatické tvorby (Televizní studio Ostrava)
feature film
130 min
35mm
1:1,85
colour
sound
Dolby Digital
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
