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MUSIC FICTION CHILDREN ANIMATION FEATURE FILMS DOCUMENTARIES CZECH TELEVISION 2009 CZECH TELEVISION TELEXPORT Kavčí hory, 140 70 Prague 4 Czech Republic Tel.: +420 261 137 047 Fax: +420 261 211 354 e-mail: [email protected] www.ceskatelevize.cz • www.ceskatelevize.cz/sales 9 200 CZECH TELEVISION FEATURE FILMS Guard No. 47 4 Bolero 6 Hlídač č. 47 Bonds of Blood 6 May 4 Krev zmizelého Máj Cosy Dens 7 Pleasant Moments 4 Pelíšky Hezké chvilky bez záruky Divided We Fall 7 Dolls 4 Musíme si pomáhat Pusinky Lovers and Murderers a 7 Over and Over 5 Milenci a vrazi Doblba! Pupendo 7 Skritek 5 The Spring of Life 8 Skřítek Pramen života The Indian and the Nurse 5 The Wild Bees 8 Indián a sestřička Divoké včely The New Breed 5 Up And Down 8 Sametoví vrazi Horem pádem A Little Piece of Heaven 6 Zelary 8 Kousek nebe Želary Autumn Spring 6 Babí léto pusinky_pohled4 8/4/05 3:44 PM Stránka 1 FEATURE FILMS dostanou vás Guard No. 47 May Pleasant Moments Dolls Hlídač č. 47 Máj Hezké chvilky bez záruky Pusinky Drama about love, passion, death The epic historical movie May A bitter comedy set in A dynamic road-movie featuring and punishment. was inspired by the poem by contemporary days, about how to three girls on their last holiday after The hero of the story is Josef Karel Hynek Mácha, a master dispel illusions. high-school graduation. The girls Dousa, a railway guard who returns piece of Czech romanticism. The main character is Hanna, keep being told to grow up at last. from the First World War hoping A captivating story of a love triangle a psychologist; her clients and But they don’t want to grow up yet. that he would forget all the horrors which involved two men and one patients come to her hoping that Ishka, Karolina and Vendula of his recent experiences in his girl is narrated by a Hangman. she will help them overcome the definitely don’t want to end up doing lone-standing guard house at the Love and passion but also a guilt problems brought by life. Hanna eight-hour shifts at some fast-food side of his beautiful young wife. and punishment are set against gives them her time and her place. They are in no hurry to enter One day he saves the life of a young the background of nature that professional advice, but who will the prison of responsibility, into a man who is about to jump under represents a demonic and an help her? Her husband is ever world where, despite of all its rules, a train. However, the man falls in indifferent power which is pulsing in jealous of her and finally leaves her, confusion reigns anyway. love with Dousa’s wife and arouses its own rhythm and confronted with and their young teenager son hides The story brings down taboos, her passion. Dousa is hit by a bout human passions. away in the world of computers tells about girls who do not feel like of deafness and when his hearing games. pretending to be quiet, gentle and returns he does not admit it to 74' The film is a kaleidoscope of fragile beings. They want to live life anyone – not even his wife. That is the various comic, tragic and their own way, and not according to 35mm, English subtitles, m/e track, the only way he can find out about banal stories clients bring to a their parents’ manual on living. © 2008, Dolby Digital, 1:1,85 his wife’s infidelity. psychologist’s office – they all long They are simply having a good time co–production: Beltfilm for love, families, interesting jobs, and trying out this and that. 107' success and riches. director: F. A. Vrabec 99' 35mm, English subtitles, m/e track, 108' © 2008, Dolby digital, 1:1,35 Rights Available: 35mm, English subtitles, m/e track, TV Video Internet Theatrical 35mm, English subtitles, m/e track, © 2007, Dolby digital, 1:1.85, director: Filip Renč © 2006, Dolby Digital, 1:1.85, co-production: Cineart TV Prague co-production: Negativ Rights Available: director: Karin Babinská TV Video Internet Theatrical director: Věra Chytilová Rights Available: Rights Available: TV Video Internet Theatrical TV Video Internet Theatrical pusinky_pohled4 8/4/05 3:44 PM Stránka 1 dostanou vás 4 www.ceskatelevize.cz/sales Over and Over Skritek The Indian and the Nurse The New Breed Doblba! Skřítek Indián a sestřička Sametoví vrazi This black comedy takes place in A slapstick comedy set in present Who would mind love? A psychological murder mystery the large Muk family at Christmas days about a family that moves A love story – the classical triangle about crime, love and betrayal… time. Our main protagonist, Karel from a village to the city. A colourful set against the background of The film is based on a true event, Muk, is a simple guy with simple cascade of gags and tragicomic conflict between traditional social the most notorious case of stark dreams and a rather streamlined situations. Funny music, sound models (the Romanies and the violence that took place since family life. effects and exclamations replace white Czechs like the Montagues November 1989. They were the His brother Robert Muk is a hard- language. and Capulets) so-called Orlik Murders driving enterpreneur and the Frantisek is a young workman who perpetrated during the first half of youngest Pavel Muk still cannot Festival Awards: Syracuse feels close to the community of the 1990s, where the victims were decide if the meaning of life is International Film and Video people simulating the lifestyle of the found at the bottom of the Orlik dam hidden in protecting the national Festival, New York – The Main Prize American Indians, falls in love with lake in Bohemia. park forests or in erotic adventures in category European Film 2006 Marie, a Romany nurse who has a The main protagonists of the film with the secretaries. One day, Skip City International D-Cinema long-standing understanding with are three business partners who shortly before Christmas, an Festival – Saitana 2006 a Romany entrepreneur. Frantisek are after big money and perpetrate unexpected inheritance lands in the and Marie’s relationship is faced four premeditated murders. Divers lap of the Muk family. 87' with many a banal prejudice and brought up the bodies of two out This sudden wealth triggers a family aversion, and so the happy of the four victims from the lake. 35mm, © 2005, Dolby Digital, chain of events which will lead the ending to their story seems to lie far The third victim died after being 1:1.85, co-production: Vorelfilm, family members off their tangents. beyond the horizon… delivered a parcel that exploded, Studio Mirage Nothing will be like before and The film is the directing debut of and the last victim was shot right nothing is accidental. They all director: Tomáš Vorel Dan Wlodarczyk there in the house… must reconsider their goals and It was actually a much more everything they do will come back Rights Available: Festival Awards: Lubuskie extensive case, but in his film the at them. TV Video Internet Theatrical Film Summer, Lagow 2006 – director mainly aims at unraveling The Bronze Bunch of Grapes Film the murderers’ motives. The story 109' Festival Cottbus 2006 – Prize of makes a thrilling and exciting film the Ecumenical Jury Neisse Film and also uncovers a broader range 35mm, English subtitles, m/e track, festival 2007 – People’s Choice of connected facts. © 2005, Dolby digital, 1:1.85, Award The events that became the story co-production: of this film are fascinating and VAC - Vachler Art Company 90' shocking. They show exceptional director: Petr Vachler cruelty and an absolute absence of 35mm, English subtitles, m/e track, any moral values on the part of the © 2006, Dolby Digital, 1:1.85, Rights Available: murderers. co-production: Cineart TV Prague TV Video Internet Theatrical director: Dan Wlodarczyk 129' Rights Available: 35mm, English subtitles, m/e track, © 2005, Dolby Digital, 1:1.85 TV Video Internet Theatrical director: Jiří Svoboda Rights Available: TV Video Internet Theatrical [email protected] 5 FEATURE FILMS A Little Piece of Heaven Autumn Spring Bolero Bonds of Blood Kousek nebe Babí léto Krev zmizelého There is no place on the world A tragicomic story of a youthful A psychological thriller inspired by A stirring drama that follows the where might not find love. seventy-five-year-old man, an real events from the 1980s. tragic fate of a mother and later that A love story – a fleeting encounter eternal dreamer and joker who A gang of young men held erotic of her daughter during the fateful between two young people who behaves very differently from his parties at their parents’ summer flow of history in Europe from the met at the wrong time at the wrong beloved yet worrying wife: he cottages – playing perverse games beginning of the Second World War place. refuses to reconcile himself to living by bringing in girls and forcing until the year 1961. The story takes place in the 1950s as an old man resignedly preparing them to perform group sex. None The story begins in the early days in a communist prison compound himself for death. Instead, he has of the victims ever spoke up about of the war with a love story between in Czechoslovakia. Luboš, the chosen to live life as a never-ending it, because of fear and shame. Arno von Lieven, a Baltic aristocrat, hero of the film, happens to meet challenge, and thus each new day One day these young men carry and Helga, a Czech girl who is a Dana and he falls in love with her.