"Don't ever try to do miracles, my boy. People will never forgive you." Strand Releasing has unveiled an official US trailer for an acclaimed indie drama titled Charlatan, set in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s, but directed by an award-winning Polish filmmaker named Agnieszka Holland. It premiered at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival last year before the pandemic hit, and is finally getting a US release in theaters this summer. The film is about the life of Jan Mikolášek, a successful Czech healer, who diagnosed & healed people using his intuition and his familiarity with plants. His remedies, although mostly plant-based, included lifestyle and dietary changes. He healed not only poor people from the villages but also many well-known people. His diagnostic methods and notorious healing got the attention of the Communist regime, and he was eventually arrested. Ivan Trojan stars as Jan, joined by Josef Troja, Juraj Loj, Jaroslava Pokorná, Jirí Cerný,...
- 7/21/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Charlatan Strand Releasing Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Agnieszka Holland Writers: Marek Epstein, Martin Sulc, Jaroslav Sedlácek Cast: Ivan Trojan, Josef Trojan, Juraj Loj, Jaroslava Pokorná, Jirí Cerný, Miroslav Hanus, Ladislav Kolár Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 5/25/21 Opens: July 23, 2021 More than sixty percent of […]
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- 7/18/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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
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