Plot

Brothers Grass and Cobra Snake feel unable to build up a life to be satisfied with. Grass, unemployed and still without a girl, does not know how to escape from the shadow of his druggie and troublemaker brother Cobra.

Brothers Grass and Cobra Snake, in their late and early thirties respectively, live in a small Czech town not far from Prague. Coming from a disfunctional family, they both feel unable to build up a life to be satisfied with. Grass, unemployed and still without a girl, does not know how to escape from the shadow of his druggie and troublemaker brother Cobra. Things seem to change for Grass when all at once he gets the opportunity to be part of a promising business and starts a relationship with the waitress of a local pub. It is just then when Cobra and his addiction show up in his life once more to put him on the verge of losing everything he achieved. But this time Grass is determined to not let anybody or anything stop his last chance in life to be happy and he decides to teach his brother a life lesson he should never forget.... A lesson that uncontrollably turns into a nightmare...

A powerful drama film with a comedic touch that tells the story of two brothers in their middle thirties that feel unable to build up a life to be satisfied with. Deeply affected by drugs and having grown up in a dysfunctional family, they finally decide to make a change in their lives... A change that will escape their control... The Snake Brothers, through its director, and the leading actors, brothers in real life too, is the best example of the new generation of Czech Cinema. This film represents a break with the themes that have dominated the Czech film scene since the fall of Communism in 1989 and opens new realities of the Czech society to international audiences.