{{Short description|1999 Czech film}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox film | name = Cosy Dens | image = Pelisky.jpg | director = Jan Hřebejk | producer = {{plainlist| * Pavel Borovan * Ondřej Trojan }} | writer = {{plainlist| * Petr Jarchovský * Petr Šabach }} | starring = {{plainlist| * Miroslav Donutil * Jiří Kodet * Simona Stašová * Emília Vášáryová * Bolek Polívka }} | music = {{plainlist| * Ivan Hlas * Ivan Kral }} | cinematography = Jan Malíř | editing = Vladimír Barák | distributor = Czech Television | released = {{Film date|1999|04|08|df=y}} | runtime = 115 minutes | country = Czech Republic | language = Czech | budget = 20,000,000 Kč{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} | gross = 80,000,000 Kč<ref name="Jan Hřebejk chystá pátý film">{{Cite web|title=Jan Hřebejk chystá pátý film|url=https://www.novinky.cz/kultura/6573-jan-hrebejk-chysta-paty-film.html|website=Novinky.cz|publisher=Borgis|access-date=7 September 2017|language=cs}}</ref> }}
'''''Cosy Dens''''' ({{langx|cs|Pelíšky}}) is a 1999 Czech film directed by Jan Hřebejk. It is loosely based on the novel ''Hovno Hoří'' ("shit on fire") by Petr Šabach. Readers of ''Reflex'' magazine voted it as the best Czech film in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|title=10 nejlepších českých filmů podle čtenářů Reflexu. Nejraději máte Pelíšky!|url=https://www.reflex.cz/nejlepsifilm|website=Reflex.cz|date=24 August 2011|access-date=2 October 2024|language=cs}}</ref> ''Cosy Dens'' was screened at the 1999 Vancouver International Film Festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/cosy-dens-1200459969/|title=Cosy Dens|website=Variety|date=31 October 1999|access-date=2 October 2024}}</ref>
==Synopsis== ''Cosy Dens'' is a bittersweet coming-of-age story set in the months from Christmas 1967 up to the 1968 Prague Spring. Teenager Michal Šebek has a crush on his upstairs neighbour, Jindřiška Krausová. Michal's family is led by a stubborn army officer who is a firm supporter of the Communist system and who believes that Communist technology will eventually triumph over "Western imperialist capitalism', while Jindřiška's father is an ardent foe of the Communists and a war hero, who has been imprisoned several times because of his outspoken opposition to the regime. He believes that "the Bolsheviks have a year left at most, maybe two". In contrast, the younger generation could not care less for politics. Instead, Michal sports a Beatles-style mop-top, while Elien, whose parents live in the United States, runs a local film group specialising in Hollywood and pre-war French films. Jindřiška eventually becomes Elien's girlfriend. After a wedding that unites the families, the film ends with the news of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops.
==Trivia== The Czech title is a plural and diminutive of the word "pelech", literally meaning animal den or burrow. It is used figuratively for a cosy place to sleep.<ref>{{Cite web|title=pelech překlad z češtiny do angličtiny|url=https://slovnik.seznam.cz/preklad/cesky_anglicky/pelech|website=Seznam.cz|access-date=17 January 2024|language=cs}}</ref>
==Cast== * Michael Beran as Michal Šebek * Ondřej Brousek as Elien * Miroslav Donutil as Mr. Šebek * Jaroslav Dušek as Saša Mašláň * Eva Holubová as Eva (teacher) * Boris Hybner as Magician * Sylvie Koblížková as Uzlinka Šebková * Jiří Kodet as Mr. Kraus * Jiří Krejčík as Doctor Stárek * Marek Morvai as Petr * Kristýna Nováková as Jindřiška Krausová * Bolek Polívka as Uncle * Simona Stašová as Mrs. Šebková * Emília Vášáryová as Mrs. Krausová * Stella Zázvorková as Grandmother
==Soundtrack== The soundtrack to ''Cosy Dens'' was released in April 1999 and contains snippets of dialogue in addition to songs.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pelíšky|url=https://www.kfilmu.net/film/pelisky/soundtrack/|website=kfilmu.net|access-date=15 August 2024 |language=cs}}</ref> # Blue Effect – "Slunečný hrob" # Miroslav Kaman, Jaroslav Dušek – "Dvě dávky" # Václav Neckář – "Tu kytaru jsem koupil kvůli tobě" # Bolek Polívka – "Nebe na zemi" # Kristýna Nováková, Michael Beran, Ondřej Brousek – "Kozačky..." # Petr Novák & Flamengo – "Povídej" # Kristýna Nováková, Michael Beran – "Něco jako příbuzný" # Waldemar Matuška – "Pojď se mnou, lásko má" # Emília Vášáryová, Jiří Kodet – "Dávám bolševikovi rok" # Hana Hegerová – "Čerešně" # Miroslav Donutil, Bolek Polívka, Silvie Koblížková – "Nerozbitná sklenička" # Kučerovci – "Ajo mama" # Miroslav Donutil, Michael Beran – "Gagarinův bratr" # Kučerovci – "La mulher rendeira" # Stella Zázvorková, Simona Stašová, Miroslav Donutil, Bolek Polívka – "Maršál Malinovskij" # Judita Čeřovská – "Je po dešti" # Eva Holubová, Jaroslav Dušek, Marek Morvai-Javorský – "Vyděržaj, pijaněr" # Václav Neckář – "Lékořice" # Emília Vášáryová, Kristýna Nováková, Jiří Kodet – "Noky" # Karel Gott – "Santa lucia" # Miroslav Donutil, Bolek Polívka, Jiří Kodet – "Kde udělali soudruzi z NDR chybu?" # Waldemar Matuška – "Mrholí" # Eva Holubová, Jaroslav Dušek, Marek Morvai-Javorský – "Hoří hovno...?" # Karel Gott & Olympic – "Trezor" # Jiří Kodet – "Proletáři všech zemí..." # The Matadors – "Get Down from the Tree" # The Soulmen – "Baby Do Not Cry" # The Soulmen – "I Wish I Were" # Blue Effect – "Snakes" # Miroslav Donutil, Bolek Polívka – "Průměrná ženská" # Blue Effect – "Sluneční hrob"
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==External links== {{wikiquote}} * {{IMDb title|id=0167331}} * {{Kinobox.cz_en|id=25517-pelisky}} * ''[http://eurochannel.com/en/Cosy-Dens-Jan-Hrebejk-Czech-Republic.html Cosy Dens]'' at Eurochannel
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