Ondřej Trojan is preparing a “dark gangster romantic musical comedy” set in a working-class environment. Czech director Ondřej Trojan is currently shooting Bourák, his next feature after the period biopic Toman. Billed as a “dark gangster romantic musical comedy”, the script was written by Petr Jarchovský, who penned the screenplays for Trojan’s previous endeavours Identity Card, Let’s All Sing Around and Želary, which received a 2004 Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign-language Film category. “It’s the story of a ‘displaced’ philanderer and irresponsible father, a romantically inclined car mechanic who, as punishment for his behaviour, is forced by his wife and daughter to sleep in his own car in a garage. In order to survive his unhappy life in these unpleasant surroundings, he lives immersed in a different reality, in the United States during the period 1956-1959, Elvis Presley’s heyday. He refuses to come down from his cloud and.
- 10/14/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
“The Devil’s Mistress”
Presented by the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles, Czech That Film festival (Ctf) in Los Angeles is now in its 6th edition and is bringing an exciting mix of films to the city this spring, and will be followed by a new traveling film series.
15 venues across North America will screen a wide selection of critically acclaimed films from poignant dramas to unique animation as part this year’s Czech That Film.
Pavol Šepeľák, Consul General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles explained, “C.S. Lewis said that art is something of a “window” into worlds unseen. The films that you will see during this edition of the festival are exactly that: “windows” to times and places that are out of reach, yet so significant for better understanding our daily lives. We would like to thank and honor the talented Czech directors...
Presented by the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles, Czech That Film festival (Ctf) in Los Angeles is now in its 6th edition and is bringing an exciting mix of films to the city this spring, and will be followed by a new traveling film series.
15 venues across North America will screen a wide selection of critically acclaimed films from poignant dramas to unique animation as part this year’s Czech That Film.
Pavol Šepeľák, Consul General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles explained, “C.S. Lewis said that art is something of a “window” into worlds unseen. The films that you will see during this edition of the festival are exactly that: “windows” to times and places that are out of reach, yet so significant for better understanding our daily lives. We would like to thank and honor the talented Czech directors...
- 3/23/2017
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Honeymoon
Written by Petr Jarchovský
Directed by Jan Hrebejk
Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2013
One of the Czech Republic’s most prolific directors working today, Jan Hrebejk is known as a master satirist, looking at the Czech Republic’s past and its influence on the country today. He has been praised in the past for being able to eloquently capture in his films what other Czechs are still grappling with today. Most of his films deal with the mark left upon contemporary Czech society by decades of Soviet rule. He has explored these themes with great success in several celebrated black comedies and even in his most widely known work, the serio-comic World War II film Divided Fall.
Honeymoon finds him working once more with longtime collaborator Petr Jarchovský on perhaps his least comedic film yet. The story begins with the wedding of Tereza (Anna Geislerová) and Radim (Stanislav Majer), which seems...
Written by Petr Jarchovský
Directed by Jan Hrebejk
Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2013
One of the Czech Republic’s most prolific directors working today, Jan Hrebejk is known as a master satirist, looking at the Czech Republic’s past and its influence on the country today. He has been praised in the past for being able to eloquently capture in his films what other Czechs are still grappling with today. Most of his films deal with the mark left upon contemporary Czech society by decades of Soviet rule. He has explored these themes with great success in several celebrated black comedies and even in his most widely known work, the serio-comic World War II film Divided Fall.
Honeymoon finds him working once more with longtime collaborator Petr Jarchovský on perhaps his least comedic film yet. The story begins with the wedding of Tereza (Anna Geislerová) and Radim (Stanislav Majer), which seems...
- 9/19/2013
- by Laura Holtebrinck
- SoundOnSight
The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Richard Linklater's Bernie as the opening night film for the 2011 festival.
The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.
The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.
"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...
The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.
The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.
"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...
- 5/30/2011
- by alyssa@mediavine.com (Alyssa Caverley)
- Reel Movie News
One of the more intriguing films to be released this fall that the average cinephile perhaps has not heard of, Kawasaki's Rose is the sort of movie that, in a healthier distribution climate, would be getting a decent specialty release from Sony Pictures Classics or IFC Films. Instead, Film Forum, New York's most canonized institution of cinema, has taken it upon itself to exhibit the film, which is the Czech Republic's entry for Best Foreign Film for 2010. The film was helmed by the Czech directing-writing duo of Jan Hrebejk (director) and Petr Jarchovský (writer). One part family drama, one part morality tale, and one part secret police thriller, Kawasaki's Rose follows many different threads that diverge from a Czech family. The family patriarch, Pavel, is an esteemed dissident who long spoke out against the country's communist government. His son-in-law, Ludek, is making a documentary about Pavel; Ludek is also conducting...
- 11/24/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
One of the more intriguing films to be released this fall that the average cinephile perhaps has not heard of, Kawasaki's Rose is the sort of movie that, in a healthier distribution climate, would be getting a decent specialty release from Sony Pictures Classics or IFC Films. Instead, Film Forum, New York's most canonized institution of cinema, has taken it upon itself to exhibit the film, which is the Czech Republic's entry for Best Foreign Film for 2010. The film was helmed by the Czech directing-writing duo of Jan Hrebejk (director) and Petr Jarchovský (writer). One part family drama, one part morality tale, and one part secret police thriller, Kawasaki's Rose follows many different threads that diverge from a Czech family. The family patriarch, Pavel, is an esteemed dissident who long spoke out against the country's communist government. His son-in-law, Ludek, is making a documentary about Pavel; Ludek is also conducting...
- 11/24/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
- 2003's Zelary (a foreign language Academy Award nominee released by Sony Pictures Classics) put director Ondrej Trojan on the international map, the WWII drama romance where a bride takes in a hubby in order to save him from certain death was poignant without being forcefully melodramatic. Despite all the buzz, Trojan was perhaps more in his comfort zone as a producer for Jan Hrebejk's body of work - he produced the filmmaker's previous three pictures. Trojan will be now tackle another period pic, this times the 1970's communist Czechoslovakia and will produce via his production company Total HelpArt (Tha). Scripted by Petr Jarchovský, Trojan's Citizenship Card is described as a coming-of-age tragicomedy about four students as they receive their first ID cards. Shooting began April 25 in Prague. The film is expected to be completed in time for a possible Cannes inclusion, and will hit the Czech market in the Fall.
- 6/8/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
By Neil Pedley
On offer this week is a veritable gallery of the eclectic and the eccentric as M. Night Shyamalan goes R-rated, Edward Norton goes green, Werner Herzog goes to the Antarctic, and two of Herzog's fellow countrymen go to California to climb a big rock very, very quickly.
"Beauty in Trouble"
Czech director Jan Hrebejk and writer Petr Jarchovský continue their longtime collaborative partnership with this dense ensemble drama loosely inspired by Robert Graves's poem of the same name. This time, the duo who balanced humor with drama in the Oscar-nominated Holocaust-set "Divided We Fall," turn to the devastating series of floods that swept Prague in 2002, and tell the story of Marcela (Anna Geislerová), an overworked mother of two living in squalor. When her ne'er do well husband is taken in by the police, she's courted by a well-to-do businessman (Josef Abrhám) and Marcela is forced to...
On offer this week is a veritable gallery of the eclectic and the eccentric as M. Night Shyamalan goes R-rated, Edward Norton goes green, Werner Herzog goes to the Antarctic, and two of Herzog's fellow countrymen go to California to climb a big rock very, very quickly.
"Beauty in Trouble"
Czech director Jan Hrebejk and writer Petr Jarchovský continue their longtime collaborative partnership with this dense ensemble drama loosely inspired by Robert Graves's poem of the same name. This time, the duo who balanced humor with drama in the Oscar-nominated Holocaust-set "Divided We Fall," turn to the devastating series of floods that swept Prague in 2002, and tell the story of Marcela (Anna Geislerová), an overworked mother of two living in squalor. When her ne'er do well husband is taken in by the police, she's courted by a well-to-do businessman (Josef Abrhám) and Marcela is forced to...
- 6/9/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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