Shut Up and Shoot Me is a black comedy about an unlikely friendship that develops between a long-sufering Czech and Englishman who can never stop worrying. Czech Pavel Zeman works six jobs so his high-maintenance, ungrateful wife Liba can buy designer shoes and clothes when she’s not cheating on him. Colin Frampton is an Englishman who never stops worrying, not even on holiday in Prague. When Colin’s wife is accidentally killed when a statue falls on her, he decides that he can’t face life without her. So Colin bribes Pavel to help him die so he can be reunited with her. Unfortunately, Pavel’s rock solid plan goes spectacularly awry, leaving Colin very much alive. Soon the hapless Czech and the depressed English tourist are reluctant partners in a scheme that sees them up to their eyes in other people’s corpses while locking horns with a notorious gangster known as The Butcher of Prague, Karel Karlovic.
Shut Up and Shoot Me is Agro Steen’s first feature film. Born and bred in Manchester, England, Agro spent the last ten years working in Commercials, shooting more than a hundred and fifty spots for products as varied as banks and pudding. He also found time to write and direct several short films which included Mother’s Day(1999) and The Painter (2003), which came in second out of a national entry of almost five hundred in the UK’s 48 Hour Film Challenge.
Producers: Jeffrey Brown, David Rauch, Paul Sherwood Cinematographer: Howard Smith Editor: Michal Lánsky Music: Frank Gough Cast: Karel Roden, Andy Nyman, Ana Geislerová, Klára Low, Denisa Knoblochová, Robert Polo, Petr Vanek, Franti_ka Jandová
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