How Not to Screw Up Your Life (2DVD) - DVD

Four stories that anyone of us could be a part of. A 2019 series from Czech Television about how to face your problems and carry on living.

An overweight primary school teacher with a complex about her body, an ageing owner of a non-stop deli in an unhappy marriage, a bank clerk who suddenly develops a strange eczema around her eyes, and a lonely man living in the woods and in other people's cabins. They can keep surviving with their problems, hiding and not dealing with them. Or will they fight back and, at the cost of some scrapes and bruises, fix their lives for the better?

When cows can fly
“Are you scared I'll get undressed? Not more than I am!”
I'm a teacher in Beroun and I'm twenty kilos overweight. Will burlesque help me convince myself and you that being fat doesn't mean not being free, or will it just turn my life upside down?
Director: Tereza Kopáčová
Starring: Eva Hacurová, Sabina Remundová, Filip Král, Stanislav Majer, Jana Burkiewiczová, Jacob Erftemeijer, Daniel Bambas and others

Non-stop deli
“A pickle salad or a Camembert one? Do I have to eat what I've dished up? Or wrap it to go?”
My life is like a slightly rotten salad, but I could have lived it out that way if it weren't for that girl who acts faster than she thinks.
Director: Jan Hřebejk
Starring: Eliška Křenková, Miroslav Krobot, Jitka Sedláčková, Jan Strejcovský, Václav Kopta, Tomáš Bambušek, Hana Seidlová, Martin Kyšperský and others

My perfect life
“Am I supposed to lose everything because of a rash?”
I'm a bank clerk. My family and my life were running flawlessly, and suddenly some eczema is going to ruin it all for me? Or was it all just an illusion before?
Director: Tereza Kopáčová
Starring: Tereza Brodská, Vasil Fridrich, Anna Peřinová, Veronika Divišová, Lucie Žáčková, Jitka Schneiderová and others

Without a trace
“I don't want to live among people! Can you please let me disappear?”
I live alone, in the woods. The only things I see of people are their belongings and empty cabins. That's how I chose it. But this winter hasn't gone well for me. People got in my way.
Director: Vít Karas
Starring: Ondřej Vetchý, Marika Šoposká, Václav Švarc, Vít Gajdoš, Jan Jankovský and others