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Czech Lion Award For Best Director
Czech Lion Award for Best Director is an annual award given to the best Czech film director of the year. Winners External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Czech Lion Award For Best Director Awards for best director Czech Lion Awards Awards established in 1993 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnieszka Holland
Agnieszka Holland (born 28 November 1948) is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, and emigrated to France shortly before the 1981 imposition of the martial law in Poland. Holland is best known for her films '' Europa Europa'' (1990), for which she received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, and ''The Secret Garden'' (1993), as well as '' Angry Harvest'' and the Holocaust drama ''In Darkness'', both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2017 she received Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) for her film '' Spoor'' at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2020, she was elected President of the European Film Academy. Early life and education Holland was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1948. She is the daughter of journalists Irena (née Rybczyńska) and Henryk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Karamazovs
''The Karamazov Brothers'' ( cz, Karamazovi) is a 2008 Czech film directed by Petr Zelenka with a soundtrack by Jan A. P. Kaczmarek. It tells the story of a group of Czech actors who come to Polish steelworks to perform a stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1880 novel ''The Brothers Karamazov'' at an alternative drama festival. As rehearsals get under way, we follow not only the emotional story examining issues of faith, immortality and the salvation of the human soul, but also the relationships within the acting troupe itself, which strangely reflect Dostoevsky's "great" themes. The stage drama is transferred to the real world when a tragedy occurs during rehearsal involving one of the spectators. ''Karamazovi'' won the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) award in Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2008 and was submitted by The Czech Republic for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zátopek (film)
''Zátopek'' is a 2021 Czech biographical film about Emil Zátopek. It is directed by David Ondříček and stars Václav Neužil. It was selected as the Czech entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. Plot Ron Clarke competes at 1968 Summer Olympics but fails to win any medal. Feeling disappointed that he might have lost his last chance to win an Olympics medal he starts to doubt his career and decides to meet Emil Zátopek whom he adores. The film is about their dialogue during which audience can learn retrospectively about Zátopek's sport career and his life. Cast * Václav Neužil as Emil Zátopek * Martha Issová as Dana Zátopková * as Josef Dostál * James Frecheville as Ron Clarke * Gabriel Andrews as Ron's Trainer * Sinead Phelps as Helen * Sean Brodeur as English Soldier * Anna Schmidtmajerová as Dana's friend * Filipp Mogilnitskiy as Soviet journalist * Roy McCrerey as English Commentator * Daniela Hirsh as Translator * Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlatan (2020 Film)
''Charlatan'' ( cs, Šarlatán) is a 2020 Czech-Polish-Irish-Slovak drama directed by Agnieszka Holland based loosely on the healer Jan Mikolášek (1889–1973), who cured hundreds of people using plant-based remedies. It was selected as the Czech entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards making the February shortlist. It won five awards including Best Film at the 2021 Czech Lion Awards. Plot The life of , a well-known and successful Czech healer, who diagnosed and healed people using his intuition and his familiarity with plants. His remedies and prescriptions, although mostly plant-based, included lifestyle and dietary changes. He healed not only poor people from the villages but also many well-known people, including the Czechoslovak President, Antonín Zápotocký. Mikolášek's diagnostic methods and notorious healing got the attention of Czechoslovakia's government. He was finally arrested after strychnine was found in the bodies of two men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Painted Bird (film)
''The Painted Bird'' ( cs, Nabarvené ptáče) is a 2019 internationally co-produced black and white war drama film written, directed and produced by Václav Marhoul. It is an adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński's novel of the same name. It is the first film to feature the Interslavic language; Marhoul stated that he decided to use Interslavic so that no Slavic nation would nationally identify with the story. ''The Painted Bird'' was selected to play in competition at the 76th Venice International Film Festival and was chosen for 2019 Toronto International Film Festival as part of Special Presentations. The film also screened in the Dare strand at the 63rd BFI London Film Festival. It was selected as the Czech entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards making the December shortlist. Its brutal scenes led to walkouts from audiences at the Venice, Toronto and London film festivals. At the 35th Warsaw International Film Festival, the audience honored t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter Flies
''Winter Flies'' ( cs, Všechno bude) is a 2018 Czech-Slovak-Polish-Slovenian co-production road movie drama by Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu. It premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on 1 July 2018. Olmo Omerzu has won a Best Director Award at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It was selected as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot The film follows two boys - Mára and Heduš. Heduš runs away from home. He joins Mára who tells him that he is running away from home. They drive through countryside in a Mára's car. They meet hitchhiker Bára who joins them. Both boys dream about having sex with her but she locks herself in the car during night and boys have to sleep outside. Mára reveals to Heduš that he goes to his grandfather who is a retired military officer. Boys eventually get to Mára's grandfather who suffers a heart attack and boys get him to hospital. Mára is later arre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Mother
''Ice Mother'' ( cs, Bába z ledu) is a 2017 Czech drama film directed by Bohdan Sláma. It was selected as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot Hana, a happy 67-year-old mother and grandmother, experiences a series of life-changing events. Cast * Zuzana Kronerová as Hana * Pavel Nový as Broňa * Václav Neužil as Ivan * Tatiana Vilhelmová as Kateřina * Petra Špalková as Věra * Marek Daniel as Petr * Alena Mihulová as Zuzana * Marie Ludvíková as Květa * Božena Černá as Boženka * Josef Ježek as Bohouš See also * List of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Czech submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Czech Republic has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1994 (after the split of Czechoslovakia in January 1993). However, there were also Czech films submitted by Cze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Prominent Patient
''A Prominent Patient'' ( cs, Masaryk) is a 2016 Czech-Slovak biographical drama film directed by Julius Ševčík. It was screened in the Berlinale Special section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. It won twelve Czech Lions including the Czech Lion for Best Film. The film was first screened in Lucerna Kino. Plot The film is set in the years 1937-1939. It shows the life of Jan Masaryk when he was the Czechoslovak ambassador to the United Kingdom. The film starts with the death of the first Czechoslovak president and Jan's father Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. Jan becomes Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Czechoslovakia faces aggression from Nazi Germany, which supports the Sudeten Germans. Masaryk tries to persuade the United Kingdom to help his homeland but the Munich Agreement is eventually settled and Czechoslovakia is forced to give up its borderlands to Germany. Jan Masaryk is devastated and leaves to the United States. He ends up in a sanatorium due to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snake Brothers
The Snake Brothers ( cs, Kobry a užovky, literally ''Cobras and Grass Snakes'') is a 2015 Czech crime drama film directed by Jan Prušinovský. The film is set in a small Czech town Kralupy nad Vltavou in central Bohemia, Czech Republic. Cast * Matěj Hádek as Vojtěch "Grass Snake" Šťastný * Kryštof Hádek as Petr "Cobra" Šťastný * Jan Hájek as Tomáš * Lucie Žáčková as Zůza * David Máj as Ládík * Věra Kubánková as Grandma * Jana Šulcová - as Mother * Lucie Polišenská as Kača Reception The film has received generally positive reviews. It holds 74% at Kinobox, a Czech film review aggregator. Awards The Screenplay was awarded by Film foundation in 2011. The film won Best Actor Award at 2015 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for Kryštof Hádek. Kryštof noted that the award belongs to his brother Matěj too. In March 2016 the film won the Czech Lion prize for best film. It also won in the categories of Best Director (Jan Prušinovský), Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Way Out (2014 Film)
''The Way Out'' (Czech: ''Cesta ven''; French: ''Je m’en sortirai'') is a 2014 Czech-French social drama film directed by Czech director Petr Václav. It premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The film won seven Czech Lion The Czech Lion Awards ( cs, Český lev) are annual awards that recognize accomplishments in filmmaking and television. It is the highest award of achievement in film awarded in the Czech Republic. The jury is composed of members of the Czech Fi ... awards, including selected Best Czech Film of 2014 and Best Director. According to '' Variety'', ''The Way Out'' is a story of a "young gypsy woman trying to lead a 'normal' life ..in a constant battle against prejudice and her own community's entrenched behavior." References External links * * Cesta venat CSFD 2014 films 2010s Czech-language films Czech drama films Czech Lion Awards winners (films) Golden Kingfisher winners Czech Film Critics' Awards winners French drama films { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burning Bush (mini-series)
''Burning Bush'' ( cs, Hořící keř) is a 2013 three-part miniseries created for HBO by Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Based on real characters and events, this haunting drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in 1969 in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in the previous year. Dagmar Burešová, a young female lawyer, became part of his legacy by defending Palach's family in a trial against the communist government, a regime which tried to dishonour Palach’s sacrifice, a heroic action for the freedom of Czechoslovakia. The fight for freedom, for moral principles, self-sacrifice and protest in those desperate times led to the moral unification of a repressed nation, which twenty years later defeated the totalitarian regime. The anniversary of Jan Palach’s death inspired a new generation of students to start protests that led to the eventual fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Shadow (2012 Film)
''In the Shadow'' ( cs, Ve stínu) is a 2012 Czech crime film directed by David Ondříček. The film was selected as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. Cast * Ivan Trojan as Captain Hakl * Sebastian Koch as Major Zenke * Soňa Norisová as Jitka * Jiří Štěpnička as Pánek * David Švehlík as Beno * Marek Taclík as Bareš * Filip Antonio as Tom * Martin Myšička as Jílek * Miroslav Krobot as Kirsch * Halka Třešňáková as translator * Simona Babčáková as researcher Awards ''In the Shadow'' won nine Czech Lion The Czech Lion Awards ( cs, Český lev) are annual awards that recognize accomplishments in filmmaking and television. It is the highest award of achievement in film awarded in the Czech Republic. The jury is composed of members of the Czech Fi ...s at the 2012 awards. See also * List of submissions to the 85th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
