While placed in the category of fiction, its main protagonists, members
of the Ravinger family, play themselves. They live at their own home and
nothing about their lives is stylised. It is an “ordinary” family living its
everyday life that is not special in any way. It is a life without much drama,
although every member of the family must cope with their own problems.
A film on everydayness, Our Daily Life is an almost sociological probe into an
ordinary family living in Czechoslovakia at the end of the 1960s. We follow
the family dynamics including mutual relations, hierarchy and “conflict”
between the rational and the emotional. We see the growing up of children
and the related pressure from their coevals, the fear of exclusion, the first
date with love, but also financial problems and dilemmas of what a family
can and cannot afford.