Too Noisy Solitude (remastered version) - DVD

Scrap paper, an old press and Philippe Noiret in a tragicomedy based on the novel by Bohumil Hrabal.

Ageing Haňťa works in a scrapyard baling waste paper. He's about to retire and wants to take the press he has worked at for years with him. He lives a quiet life filled with both ordinary and extraordinary encounters with the people who bring him paper to be baled, as well as with imaginary guests, whether they are saints, literary characters or the authors of the books he presses. He reads, dreams of the beautiful Romani girl Ilonka, and drinks with his friends, who include a professor, Romani people, and a sexton. However, his peaceful life unexpectedly begins to fall apart. Disappointed, and having suddenly lost his purpose in life, the man sees only one way to complete his life's work.