The End of a Priest

"The Priest's End" is the story of a church sexton who poses as a priest for the sake of his loved ones in a village. The village, unaware of this deception, welcomes him with joy — until then it had lived without a spiritual shepherd.

According to screenwriter Josef Škvorecký's interpretation, the two main "heroes" of the film "The Sexton and the Cantor" represent con artists: "One has credentials but is not actually a teacher, the other has no credentials but is actually a priest. It could just as easily be the other way around. So it is not about a conflict between secular and spiritual power, but about the contrast between love and indifference."