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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2016

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2016

Czech Films 2015–2016

Programme

12 films · 4 reviews

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Blue Shadows (Modré stíny)

In this four-part crime miniseries, Olomouc detectives have to deal with the elusive and ambivalent enemies behind the murder of a university lecturer.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Viktor Taus; Writer: Petr Jarchovský; Stars: Klára Melísková, Stanislav Majer, Miroslav Krobot, Tereza Vorísková, David Novotný, Tomás Dastlík, Martin Huba, Martin Pechlát, Andrei Toader, Dana Novak Pesková, Miroslav Chýle, Zdenek Fator, Eva Jenícková, Matous Rajmont, Jirí Strébl)

Courage ( Odvaha)

Documentary dialogue between filmmaker Pavel Štingl and one of the iconic figures of Czech modern art, sculptor and painter Jaroslav Róna.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Pavel Štingl)

Doomed Beauty (Zkáza krásou)

Documentary about actress Lída Baarová.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Jakub Hejna, Helena Trestíková; Writer: Jakub Hejna, Helena Trestíková; Stars: Lída Baarová, Vladimír Borský, Frantisek Cáp, Gustav Fröhlich, Joseph Goebbels, Natasa Gollová, Adolf Hitler, Emil Hácha, Zorka Janu, Václav Krska, Carl Lamac, Adina Mandlová, Jaroslav Marvan, Oldrich Nový, Frantisek Paul)

Eva Nová

Review preview for Eva Nová

Skop has made documentaries in the past and he and Vásáryová are alive to small gestures.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
A glimpse into an ageing woman’s oppressive world where alcohol is quickening the process of decline.

(Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2015; Director: Marko Skop; Writer: Marko Skop; Stars: Emília Vásáryová, Juliana Olhová, Dusan Jamrich, Zofia Martisová, Michaela Melisová, Gabriela Dolná, Milan Ondrík, Anikó Varga, Gabriela Dzuríková, Michaela Cillikova, Lubo Gregor, Alexander Lukac, Jaroslava Sisakova, Valeria Furjesova)

Full review See: Made In Prague highlights

Family Film (Rodinny Film)

Review preview for Family Film

Omerzu's observational, unsentimental style and the cool, stripped back lensing from Lukas Milota means that increasingly outlandish unfortunate events unfold with an acidic humour rather than melodrama.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
A family starts to disintegrate after the mother and father leave the children home alone.

(Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia, France; Year: 2015; Director: Olmo Omerzu; Writer: Olmo Omerzu, Nebojsa Pop Tasic; Stars: Karel Roden, Jenovéfa Boková, Martin Pechlát)

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In Your Dreams! (Ani ve snu!)

Can you imprison someone in a dream? It’s very likely that teenager Laura has succeeded in doing just that, which isn’t so great because the prisoner is her new love interest.

(Country: Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia; Year: 2016; Director: Petr Oukropec; Writer: Egon Tobiás; Stars: Martina Kavanová, Ivan Martinka, Klára Melísková, Adam Misík, Jáchym Novotný, Veronika Pouchová, Toman Rychtera, Barbora Stikarová, Jan Vondrácek, Tomás Zonyga)

I, Mattoni - Honeymoon in Vienna (Já, Mattoni - Vídeňské líbánky)

Immediately after his wedding night Heinrich Mattoni sets off for Vienna, where there’s everything to play for. The young entrepreneur has to prove that he really is capable of turning water into gold…

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Marek Najbrt)

I, Olga Hepnarová (Já, Olga Hepnarová)

Review preview for I, Olga Hepnarová

While the narrative framework may not quite go the distance, the shot choices are never less than exquisite.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Period drama about a real-life murderer.

(Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, France; Year: 2016; Director: Petr Kazda, Tomás Weinreb; Writer: Roman Cílek, Tomás Weinreb, Petr Kazda; Stars: Michalina Olszanska, Martin Pechlát, Klára Melísková, Marika Soposká, Juraj Nvota, Martin Finger, Marta Mazurek, Ondrej Malý, Petra Nesvacilová, Ivan Palúch, Gabriela Mícová, Zuzana Stavná, Jan Novotny, Viktor Vrabec, Malwina Turek)

Full review See: Made In Prague highlights , Karlovy Vary Festival report

Lost In Munich

The absurd story of French prime minister Edouard Daladier's parrot, a witness to the Munich Conference, who reveals its secrets decades later.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2015; Director: Petr Zelenka; Writer: Petr Zelenka; Stars: Marcial Bo Di Fonzo, Jana Plodková, Václav Neuzil, Václav Kopta, Martin Mysicka, Jitka Schneiderová, Stanislas Pierret, Marek Taclík, Vladimír Skultéty, Michel Fleischmann, Tomás Bambusek, Jakub Zelezný)

Tiger Theory (Teorie tygra)

Can a timid and domesticated rabbit morph back into a feral tiger?

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Radek Bajgar; Writer: Radek Bajgar, Mirka Zlatníková; Stars: Lucia Siposová, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Eliska Balzerová, Jirí Bartoska, Iva Janzurová, Milan Lasica, Klára Melísková, Jakub Kohák, Ondrej Pavelka, Jaromír Dulava, Pavla Beretová, Ivana Uhlírová, Jirí Havelka, Arnost Goldflam, Eva Salzmanová)

Under The Sun (V paprscích slunce)

A film about an ordinary family in Pyongyang.

(Country: Czech Republic, Russia, Germany, North Korea, Latvia; Year: 2015; Director: Vitaliy Manskiy; Writer: Vitaliy Manskiy)

We Are Never Alone (Nikdy nejsme sami)

Review preview for We Are Never Alone

Petr Vaclav's latest film is almost smothering in its bleakness.

Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
Bleak lives intersect in a small town in the Czech Republic.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Petr Václav; Writer: Petr Václav; Stars: Klaudia Dudová, Zdenek Godla, Miroslav Hanus, Karel Roden, Lenka Vlasáková)

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