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What's Slovak in Berlin 2018? WHAT'S SLOVAK IN BERLIN? FEBRUARY 15 − 25, 2018 WHAT´S SLOVAK IN BERLIN? BERLINALE SPECIAL A BOOK BY A FORMER SS OffICER DETAILING HIS TIME AND DEEDS IN SLOVAKIA FALLS INTO THE HANDS OF THE INTERPRETER, ALI UNGÁR. THE INTERPRETER HE REALISES THAT THE SS OffICER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF TLMOčnÍK HIS PARENTS. HE TRAVELS TO VIENNA INTERVIEW WITH MARTIN ties is getting ever stronger in Slovakia number of films that he’s acted in, he is just ŠULÍK, DIRECTOR AND and across the whole of Europe, and peo- one prominent type and so only able to play PRODUCER OF THE FILM ple who have not learned the lessons from himself. Unlike Peter he doesn’t like to talk BUT, HE FINDS ONLY OffICER’S SON the past tend to succumb to it. Is The Inter- about his character. His principle was: “Don’t Martin Šulík (1962) is an internationally suc- preter intended to be a contribution to the talk, act!” It was intriguing that they not only GEORG, WHO HAS DISTANCED HIMSELF cessful and well-known Slovak film director. discussion on this topic? played two contrasting characters, but they Seven years after his last feature film Gypsy, Together with Marek, we follow what also worked using different methods. Peter FROM HIS FATHER’S PAST. THE he is coming back with road movie The In- is going on in Slovakia and Europe, how liked to check his work on video and, based terpreter. The film about two men dealing people’s thinking changes at various levels. on what he viewed, he was able to offer vari- with their past decisions will be world pre- Views very close to Fascism are currently ations on the individual scenes from a criti- INTERPRETer’S VISIT AWAKENS HIS miered in the Berlinale Special section. being presented not only by various mili- cal distance. Jirka did not, on principle, view tant organisations but also by politicians in himself while shooting and stated that he INTEREST AND HE DECIDES TO FIND The film is about two contrasting men who top positions. As if they didn’t comprehend placed all his trust in the director. travel around Slovakia to find the truth the impact of their words. We travelled OUT WHO HIS FATHER ACTUALLY WAS. about their own pasts. What affected you across a large part of Central Slovakia, the You tell the story non-traditionally so much that you made the decision to places in which our story is set, and we had through a road movie. Did you opt for this shoot such a story? no trouble in finding people who would be genre with regard to the motif of the jour- When working on a film, several sourc- keen to send someone to the gas chamber ney which carries cognition in it? es of inspiration and concepts always con- or shoot a whole ethnic minority. However, Marek and I liked the idea of making verge. The Interpreter was initially part of many Slovaks are not interested in the past, a road movie with two old men. They are a ten-episode television series Faces (orig. they are consumed by the contemporary both set in their ways, they don’t want to Tváre) about various professions. We wrote it social problems, they have lost all aware- adapt to each other and there is tension together with Marek Leščák and we expect- ness of the context and, without batting between them. The shooting concept also SK, CZ, AT 2018 110 MIN. FIctION ed to present a picture of society, rather like an eyelid, are capable of accepting any po- resulted from this. I was happy to watch Balzac’s Comédie Humaine, via portraits of peo- litical demagogy manipulating history and the faces of both old men when they remi- ple in a variety of professions. We sought to offering radical solutions. Our heroes, just nisced about the past. I wanted to see what DIREctOR: Martin Šulík depict each profession in some sort of ethi- like we did, encounter various people on they felt when doing so, I was interested in SCREENPLAY: Marek Leščák, Martin Šulík cal conflict and, by means of these conflicts, their road, people who represent a variety whether they were ashamed, laughing or DOP: Martin Štrba we wanted to understand not just the indi- of views from our past and, based on these moved. We shot a lot of material with the vidual people but also the society we live in. coincidental encounters, they create a pic- director of photography, Martin Štrba, we Cast: Peter Simonischek, Jiří Menzel, Zuzana Mauréry, Attila Mokos The TV companies showed no interest in our ture of the world they live in, of its values. wanted to overlap the conversations with PRODUctION: TITANIC (SK), IN Film Praha (CZ), project, it struck them as far too expensive, this material, to create an image counter- which is why, along with Marek Leščák and Peter Simonischek and Jiří Menzel are point to them, but eventually we discarded coop99 filmproduktion (AT), Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska (SK), Česká televize (CZ) producer Rudo Biermann, we took the deci- pronounced personalities. One of them is everything with the editor, Olina Kauf- sion that we would gradually start to make an experienced actor, the other an expe- manová. That seems to have been a good CONtact: Titanic, [email protected]; IN Film Praha, [email protected], www.infilm.cz films from the scripts already written. The rienced actor and director. How did that solution. I like watching Jirka and Peter as first we chose was the interpreter’s story. show while shooting the film? they gradually get to know each other. FEstIVALS: Celluloid Dreams, Pascale Ramonda, [email protected] Peter and Jirka are two contrasting act- SALES: Celluloid Dreams, Hengameh Panahi, +33 1 49 70 03 70, Both of the film’s protagonists are con- ing types. Peter is a noted stage actor with Abridged from Film.sk (English Special Edition) [email protected], www.celluloid-dreams.com fronted with events from the period of the big screen experience. He is used to rehears- Slovak State. This theme is highly topical ing and he built his character gradually. This film was financially supported by nowadays as the voice of ultra-right par- Jirka says of himself that, despite the large WORLD PREMIERE: BERLINALE SPECIAL SCREENINGS FEB 15 > 14:20 > MGB CINEMA * EFM BUYERS ONLY FEB 16 > 10:45 > CINEMAXX 4 * EFM BUYERS ONLY FEB 18 > 17:00 > CINEMAXX 1 * EFM BUYERS ONLY FEB 23 > 20:00 > KINO INTERNATIONAL * WORLD PREMIERE WHAT´S SLOVAK IN BERLIN? BERLINALE GENERATION 14PLUS WHAT´S SLOVAK IN BERLIN? BERLINALE MARKET SCREENINGS UNTRAVEL BAREFOOT NEPUTOVANJA NINA PO STRNIŠTI FREEDOM NINA BOS SLOBODA SK, CZ ﹥ 2017 ﹥ 82 MIN. ﹥ fIctION CZ, DK, SK ﹥ 2017 ﹥ 110 MIN. ﹥ fIctION DE, SK ﹥ 2017 ﹥ 106 MIN. ﹥ fIctION DIREctOR: Juraj Lehotský DIREctOR: Jan Svěrák DIREctOR: Jan Speckenbach SCREENPLAY: Marek Leščák, Juraj Lehotský SCREENPLAY: Jan Svěrák SCREENPLAY: Jan Speckenbach, DOP: Norbert Hudec DOP: Vladimír Smutný Andreas Deinert Cast: Bibiana Nováková, Petra Fornayová, PRODUctION: Biograf Jan Svěrák (CZ), DOP: Tilo Hauke Robert Roth, Josef Kleindienst Phoenix Film (DK), NOVINSKI (SK), Česká PRODUctION: ONE TWO FILMS (DE), BFILM PRODUctION: Punkchart films (SK), televize (CZ), Rozhlas a televízia (SK), ZAK Film Production (DE) endorfilm (CZ), Česká televize (CZ), Slovenska (SK), innogy (CZ) WORLD PREMIERE: Lehotsky Film (SK), Rozhlas a televízia www.POstRNIstIBOS.cz FEstIVALS & SALES: Pluto Film, GENERatION 14PLUS Slovenska (SK), sentimentalfilm (SK) +49 30 2191 8220, [email protected], www.NINAFILM.COM FEstIVALS: Biograf Jan Svěrák, www.plutofilm.de +420 244 468 100, [email protected], FEstIVALS & SALES: alpha violet / www.sverak.cz WORLD PREMIERE: Keiko Fumato, +33 6 2983 5108, SALES: Portobello Film Sales, 70TH LOcaRNO IFF [email protected] / [email protected], Virginie Devesa, +33 6 2041 1137, www.portobellofilmsales.com A woman leaves her husband and two [email protected], children without a word. She is impelled www.alphaviolet.com" INTERNatIONAL PREMIERE: by an inexplicable force. She wants to be A film about (local) patriotism, tourism RS, SK ﹥ 2018 ﹥ 10 MIN. ﹥ ANIMatION 27TH COttbUS FF free. Nora leaves for Vienna where she and emigration. The girl has lived in a grey, DIREctORS & ANIMatON: Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak Jr. WORLD PREMIERE: meets a younger man but she has the SCREENPLAY: Ana Nedeljković 52ND KARLOVY VaRY IFF 8-year-old Eda is a long-desired and impression that the environment, which is isolated country, enclosed by a huge wall. DOP: Nikola Majdak Jr. anxiously protected child of parents who culturally close to her own country, does She has never travelled anywhere, but all PRODUctION: BAŠ ČELIK (RS), BFILM (SK), Your Dreams Factory (SK) Nina is 12. Her parents are getting a divor- had lost one baby before. Eda is therefo- not provide her with sufficient freedom, ce and her world is falling apart before her re a backup child; he even has the same hence she leaves for Bratislava. She alters her life she has dreamt of leaving forever CONtact: BAŠ ČELIK, [email protected], www.bascelik.net; eyes. Her mom and dad say they are only name. After his father rejects to affiliate her appearance, she works as a chamber- for a perfect world called Abroad. BFILM, [email protected], www.bfilm.sk; Your Dreams Factory, doing what is best for her, but in fact, they with Nazi invaders of Czechoslovakia in maid, she meets the young stripper Etela [email protected], www.yourdreamsfactory.com act as though they only cared for them- 1939, the family has to flee Prague to hide and her husband Tamás, and she embarks selves.
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