By A Sharp Knife / Ostrým nožom
Slovakia, Czech Republic 2019
Directed by Teodor Kuhn, drama, 89 min, eng subtitles, 16+
Written by Jakub Medvecký, Teodor Kuhn
With Roman Luknár, Ela Lehotská, Miroslav Krobot, Dávid Hartl, Marián Mitaš
Ludovít has lost his son in a ruthless neo-nazi attack. Blaming himself and experiencing alienation from his family, he enters into an uneven struggle with the corrupt judiciary and the powerful mafialike network.
Inspired by a real-life event, the murder of a 21-year-old Slovak student in 2005, By a Sharp Knife is a noirish political thriller about a desperate fight against the corrosive power of corruption told from the perspective of a bereaved father facing the fact that the perpetrators of the murder are about to be set free. Kuhn´s feature depicting police corruption and the failure to condemn criminals opened in Slovak cinemas exactly one year after the shocking murder of the Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak.
With the support of the Slovak Embassy in Brussels and in collaboration with 