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Cosy Dens

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Cosy Dens	comment	Cosy Dens (Czech: Pelíšky) is a Czech cult film from 1999. Directed by Jan Hřebejk, it is a tragicomic exploration of life under the Communist regime.It follows the lives of two Prague families shortly before and through the Prague Spring of 1968, when there was hope that, after twenty years behind the Iron Curtain, the regime would become more liberal, or even that the country could become democratic again.The Šebeks are headed by a father who is an officer in the Czechoslovak People’s Army; he believes in the ideology of the regime and tries to impose order and discipline in his family, causing conflict with his Western-minded teenage son Michal. The latter is vying for the attentions of his next-door neighbor Jindřiška, but she is more interested in the worldly Elien, a mature teenager whose parents live in America. Jindřiška’s father, the paterfamilias of the Kraus family, is a perpetually choleric World War II veteran whose contribution to his country’s freedom and his fight against Nazis was "rewarded" by years spent inside a Communist prison. He takes his bitterness out on his family and clashes with his daughter over petty issues. These squabbles play out over a rather boisterous 1967 Christmas holiday; the second act moves the plot to the spring of 1968, and focuses more on changes both within the families and in society.The title is ironic in that the two families’ homes are not particularly cozy due to the differences among family members, yet resonant in that one’s home is where one can be oneself and get a measure of refuge from the oppressive government.Czechs consistently rank Cosy Dens as one of their favorite movies and best comedies of all time. Its appeal lies to a great extent in its inclusion of many pithy quotes, as well as of elements based on a distinctly Czech experience; for this reason, it may not resound as much with foreigners, who may not get much of the humor, similarly to the critically acclaimed Kolya.A prequel trilogy, Garden Centre (Zahradnictví), was released in 2017. Before that, in 2010, Občanský průkaz (Identity card), another book of Petr Šabach, was filmed and serves basically as Spiritual Successor to Cosy Dens. It takes part in The '70s and follows a group of teenage boys trying to follow their "hippie" dreams while under the much harsher regime of "Normalisation", brought to the country by the Soviet invasion.
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Cosy Dens / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
Cosy Dens / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Father Šebek appears to have a warmer relationship with his younger daughter, Uzlinka.
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Cosy Dens / int_24ec14c7	type	Crappy Holidays
Cosy Dens / int_24ec14c7	comment	Crappy Holidays: They try, but neither the Šebeks nor the Krauses manage to pull off a nice family Christmas. In the former case, the men of the family get just a little too wild; in the latter, the season is marred by overreaction to largely petty issues. Jindřiška and Michal bond over it.
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Cosy Dens / int_3618ebb9	type	TheSixties
Cosy Dens / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s: A subdued version from behind the Iron Curtain. Western music and other influences are present, but are enjoyed somewhat clandestinely and difficult to obtain.
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Cosy Dens / int_43dbecd	type	Ate the Spoon
Cosy Dens / int_43dbecd	comment	A wonder of Communist technology, plastic spoons which dissolve in the coffee. Mr Šebek's wedding present... This leads to one of the most famous lines in this movie: "I would just like to know where comrades in East Germany made a mistake!"
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Cosy Dens / int_4a8c4e5f	type	Big "WHAT?!"
Cosy Dens / int_4a8c4e5f	comment	Addressing Mr Kraus as 'comrade' is a really bad idea. Try it, and you'll live to regret it. Saša addresses him as Comrade, gets a moderately big Big "WHAT?!" and then Mr Kraus whips him with his walking stick.
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Cosy Dens / int_4c5f0662	type	Girl Next Door
Cosy Dens / int_4c5f0662	comment	Girl Next Door: Jindřiška lives in the same house as Michal and the house has just two flats. She's very pretty, clever and down-to-earth.
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Cosy Dens / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Cosy Dens / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The Soviets occupy Czechoslovakia, dashing the hopes of the Prague Spring. The Krauses emigrate and Father Šebek suffers a breakdown from being disillusioned with Communism.
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Cosy Dens / int_4e3dee88	type	Their First Time
Cosy Dens / int_4e3dee88	comment	Their First Time: Jindřiška and Elien are implied to have had sex before he emigrates to join his parents in America. It was likely their first time.
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Cosy Dens / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Cosy Dens / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Father Kraus' overblown reaction in the infamous "Gnocchi vs. Dumplings" scene.
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Cosy Dens / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Cosy Dens / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The movie begins and ends with failed suicide attempts. At the beginning, Michal tries to hang himself in a gazebo in front of their house to show Jindriska how unhappy he is without her. He falls down because the gazebo is almost broken and the construction is in poor state. Jindriska finds him on the ground and comforts him. At the end, Michal's father wants to hang himself at the same place and also fails to kill himself. His brother finds him and comforts him. Both look heart-broken.
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Cosy Dens / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Cosy Dens / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: The women of the Šebek clan are seen to be more level-headed than their male counterparts.
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Cosy Dens / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Cosy Dens / int_5c32249d	comment	My Way or the Highway: The two fathers are shown to be despots and implied to see themselves as absolute heads of their households. This is most clearly manifested in the petty argument that flares up during Christmas lunch at the Kraus’s, in the presence of a doctor who has come as a guest. A discussion develops about the way the dumplings turned out. Jindřiška asserts that, being “gnocchi”, they turned out just as they should have. Her father is infuriated that she should refer to her mother’s potato dumplings as “gnocchi”. When Jindřiška won’t back down and starts quoting a recipe for gnocchi, her father goes ballistic. He chews her out for behaving that way toward her father in front of a guest and orders her to leave his presence with a slew of verbal abuse which includes the invective: “This is still my apartment and nothing here belongs to you, not even that dumpling!” The fight culminates in Jindřiška fleeing to her room, into which her father hurls a heavy object through the translucent glass screen.
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Cosy Dens / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Cosy Dens / int_630e5e56	comment	My New Gift Is Lame: The Šebeks’ Christmas Eve. Michal imagines a pair of American-style boots inside the present that his father gives him. Predictably, it turns out to be a pair of army-style boots, complete with matching socks. Mrs Šebek gets a set of glasses made from supposedly unbreakable glass …which end up being breakable if one throws them hard enough. Jindřiška gets a hand-made cigarette box shaped like a camel. She asks whether it's a dog to annoy her father who made it. A wonder of Communist technology, plastic spoons which dissolve in the coffee. Mr Šebek's wedding present... This leads to one of the most famous lines in this movie: "I would just like to know where comrades in East Germany made a mistake!"
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Cosy Dens / int_69cc2a27	type	Hilariously Abusive Childhood
Cosy Dens / int_69cc2a27	comment	Hilariously Abusive Childhood: When Czech people watch the fathers’ outbursts toward their children, they tend to find a lot of humor in them. This seems to be because the fathers’ behavior caricatures a kind of paternal despotism that seems to have been common at one time.
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Cosy Dens / int_69ff3fba	type	Beehive Hairdo
Cosy Dens / int_69ff3fba	comment	Beehive Hairdo: Mrs. Šebek has a very big one; it was created from the actress’s real hair.
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Cosy Dens / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
Cosy Dens / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: Due to his unrequited affection toward Jindřiška (and perhaps partly due to dissatisfaction with his home life), Michal tries and fails twice, by trying to hang himself in the gazebo, whereupon the construction collapses, and then by gassing himself - in an electric oven. Then his father tries to hang himself in the same gazebo after the Soviets occupy Czechoslovakia, failing for the same reason as his son did.
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Cosy Dens / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
Cosy Dens / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: The teacher’s son acts up before all of his mother’s prospective suitors, in order to drive them away one by one. He turns out to be a good judge of their characters as they are all inadequate choices and ends up being rewarded with Father Kraus, who takes a liking to him and dotes on him, as his eventual stepfather.
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Cosy Dens / int_884a3885	type	Parental Blamelessness
Cosy Dens / int_884a3885	comment	Parental Blamelessness: In the infamous scene where Jindřiška provokes Father Kraus by calling her mother's dumplings "gnocchi", to which he reacts with excessive anger, the ensuing vitriolic reaction on part of the father includes a tirade on how his best efforts at raising her are in vain. One of the invectives he throws her way is: "Once you have raised a daughter, come and argue with me!"
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Cosy Dens / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
Cosy Dens / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: Michal doesn’t succeed in winning over Jindřiška’s affections. After Michal suggests that, her boyfriend Elien having emigrated, they could start dating, she uses their just having become cousins though marriage as a pretext for rejecting his proposal.
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Cosy Dens / int_9b853e85	type	Paper Destruction of Anger
Cosy Dens / int_9b853e85	comment	Paper Destruction of Anger: Mr Šebek tears his son Michal's poster of Mick Jagger into small pieces, crumples it up and then throws the crumpled pieces on the ground. He hates everything Western and hippie-like. Michal made his sister to put it on their father's noticeboard on purpose to tick him off. Mr Šebek was already in a bad mood because he's hungover, but the poster got under his skin real bad.
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Cosy Dens / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Cosy Dens / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The film alternates a lot between comic and serious situations; this is seen most strongly when the teenagers are attending an illicit viewing of a Western film on the street, which is interrupted by Father Kraus coming to tell Jindřiška that her mother has died.
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Cosy Dens / int_a63f45d5	type	Cool Uncle
Cosy Dens / int_a63f45d5	comment	Cool Uncle: Uncle Václav is fun-loving and easy going, in contrast to his disciplinarian brother. Undermined by the fact that we see more of his interactions with the latter (he seems to be able to bring out Father Šebek’s boyish side) than with his nephew and niece.
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Cosy Dens / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Cosy Dens / int_a7382a73	comment	The Šebeks’ Christmas Eve. Michal imagines a pair of American-style boots inside the present that his father gives him. Predictably, it turns out to be a pair of army-style boots, complete with matching socks.
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Cosy Dens / int_a864d2d8	type	Commie Land
Cosy Dens / int_a864d2d8	comment	Commie Land: At a point in history where there were hopes that the regime would be relaxed; these are dashed by the end of the movie.
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Cosy Dens / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Cosy Dens / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Father Kraus has snarking as second nature. His daughter Jindřiška is catching up.
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Cosy Dens / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Cosy Dens / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: The two fathers are domestic tyrants who have no understanding for their teenage children and react very aggressively to their displays of individuality and petty rebellion. They are not above throwing insults, demeaning criticism and even physical projectiles at them. They do seem to have become more resigned to their children’s ways by the second act.
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Cosy Dens / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Cosy Dens / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: For Michal and Jindřiška.
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Cosy Dens / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
Cosy Dens / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: Mainly due to generational differences and the fathers’ hard-headedness, as well as Father Kraus’ bitter nature. Nonetheless, they manage to stick together.
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Cosy Dens / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Cosy Dens / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Don’t put a picture of Mick Jagger or any other hippie type (called 'longhairs') on Father Šebek’s notice board. He'll tear it to pieces and throw an epic tantrum. Don’t under any circumstances call the exquisite Viennese potato dumplings made by Mrs Kraus 'gnocchi'. Mr Kraus hates gnocchi. Gnocchi are gnocchi and dumplings are dumplings. He even smashes Jindriska's glass door in his fit of rage. Addressing Mr Kraus as 'comrade' is a really bad idea. Try it, and you'll live to regret it. Saša addresses him as Comrade, gets a moderately big Big "WHAT?!" and then Mr Kraus whips him with his walking stick.
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Cosy Dens / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Cosy Dens / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: The Šebeks are happy together, much happier than the Krauses. It's because Women Are Wiser — and Mrs Šebek definitely is. She knows how to handle her husband and genuinely likes him. He is fond of his wife as well.
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Cosy Dens / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
Cosy Dens / int_d68c925d	comment	Creator Provincialism: The film is replete with references to Czech culture and recent history, giving it a strong local appeal but little fame outside its homeland. An English-language page such as this one cannot do it full justice; if there were a Czech version of TV Tropes, Pelíšky would likely be ur-example or codifier of various strictly local tropes (e.g. Gnocchi vs. Dumplings).
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Cosy Dens / int_d73e0f7f	type	"Ray of Hope" Ending
Cosy Dens / int_d73e0f7f	comment	"Ray of Hope" Ending: It’s subtle, but Uzlinka manages to rescue her cousin's abandoned pet birds from the Kraus’s apartment, which was seized after they emigrated to the West. The fall of Communism 21 years later is a Foregone Conclusion, given that the movie was released a decade after the fact.
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Cosy Dens / int_dadf222	type	Minor Living Alone
Cosy Dens / int_dadf222	comment	Minor Living Alone: Played with in Elien's case. Although he lives in an institution, his parents having emigrated to America, he seems to have a lot of freedom to come and go more or less as he pleases and his quarters seem more like a student dormitory than an orphans' home. He even receives long-distance telephone calls at the reception desk from his parents - which seems implausible for the Communist era - by means of which they eventually give him the signal that the right time to emigrate himself has come.
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Cosy Dens / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
Cosy Dens / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: The policeman who carelessly admits to a classroom of teenagers that he shot an innocent motorcyclist (a mailman to boot!) who seemed to match the description of an alleged spy, justifies it with the stock phrase “I had clear orders”.
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Cosy Dens / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Cosy Dens / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The book “Hovno hoří!” (Flaming Feces), on which the film was based, was inspired by true events that the author, Petr Šabach, had witnessed (The little son of Jindřiška’s homeroom teacher is based on the author as an onlooker). The screenplay is a loose adaptation of the book.
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Cosy Dens / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Cosy Dens / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: During Christmas lunch, Jindřiška and Father Kraus butt heads over whether Mrs. Kraus made dumplings or gnocchi. The debate quickly gets very ugly.
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