The Great Night

A documentary study of the modern-day phenomenon of night life and sleeplessness. Using authentic portraits of characters living in the dark “half-world” of Prague non-stop bars, gambler houses and night clubs, we map the living space and community of people of the “eternal night”. The film is composed of portraits of several people, for whom such premises have become a natural living space, a safety beacon of light, where one is never truly alone. Sleeplessness, the inability to endure one’s own presence and the urge to meet with similarly afflicted individuals in these “bunkers”, also often simply the love of adventures of the night, criminal surroundings and drugs. The paradox situation of prolonging sleeplessness through the consumption of methamphetamines and other stimulants, deepening the paranoia of light and the world. Creation of a subculture with its own morals and philosophy.