Nonstop

A feature-length documentary which crosses a sociological survey with a documentary essay; in its relationship to reality it recalls the poetic perception of Karel Vachek. People chosen at random along the Prague-Brno highway contemplate the infinite and the beginning of the world. The owners of a restaurant reminisce about past political celebrities and praise President Havel. A young hitchhiker talks about his travels, while behind him funeral home workers remove the victim of a car accident. The camera also records the „never-ending“ process of inflating a giant advertising tiger atop an Esso gas station. A raffle organizer speaks somewhat awkwardly about the afterlife while standing above a gutted deer. A cook and various travelers agree that nothing is lost, everything just transforms, and the world flows by „nonstop“.