Follow Me 2020 Full Movie

Follow Me Full Movie

Pavel Navrátil, who had been teaching philosophy at Prague university, loses his professorship after the Prague Spring. Henceforth he is restricted to working as a gravedigger in a cemetery and lecturing his students secretly. After three years he is tired of this double life and risks starting a new one. He does not do this secretly, instead he makes a theatrical departure from the Czechoslovakian police-state. He invites his students to the funeral of a dead man whom he does not know himself and who gets a huge grave-stone with the inscription ‘Hrdlicka’. He holds a final secret seminar in his flat which, naturally, is observed. He gives away his philosophy books. He says goodbye to his mother, who still thinks he has not grown up, and to his wife and son who he has already left long ago. And he wishes his ex-colleague and arch-enemy well, knowing that he will not forget him.

Starting A New Life

Navrátil leaves Prague without any difficulty and starts a new life at an airport somewhere in the West. This new life also consists of a double identity. During the day, he is a baggage-man at the airport and on the evenings and days-off he flies back home in this fantasy. There, he encounters all kinds of different and extravagant people, who all seem just as stranded as he himself: an Austrian violin fanatic, a German-Jewish lady, and the melancholic and wise Russian Ljubja, who owns a brothel and employs girls from all over the world. With all of these companions in misfortune, he celebrates the festivities of home, picnics full of longing and enchantment. And again and again Navrátil plays flying-to-Prague with the airport barber. He has himself lathered and shaven to the rhythm of the flight calls.

Return to Prague

But after five years abroad he flies back to Prague once again to say farewell finally to his home country. With a load of airport falcons and an ingeniously implemented birdmask, he manages to jump behind the Iron Curtain. He visits the same places again. The house he lived in, Hrdlicka’s grave, which he does not find. Instead, he meets a young Russian Red Army Soldier with whom he spends the whole night drinking Vodka and discussing – since neither of them speaks the language of the opposite, they communicate with hands and feet.

Final Departure

At dawn he is picked up by the state police and deported to the West by plane. The authorities’ final message before his departure is: “Listen carefully. You were not in Prague. No one saw you. You will forget and we will forget that you exist”. The jet leaves Prague. Navrátil returns to the West, with a crying and a laughing eye.

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