The Ear

An official finds his home under surveillance and his marriage facing turbulence in this Orwellian portrait of life in Communist-era Czechoslovakia.

A Communist Party official and his wife attend a reception given by the President. Returning home, they begin to suspect that they are under surveillance. This nightmarish satire of a totalitarian system was banned on completion, due to its criticism of the secret police’s methods. It was eventually released 20 years later, following the collapse of Gustáv Husák’s ‘normalisation’ regime.