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NÁVRAT DIVOKÝCH KONÍ / THE CZECH RETURN OF THE WILD HORSES JAN HOŠEK 2011, 28MIN ROK ĎÁBLA / The Central Asian Przewalski’s Horse is the very last PETR ZELENKA surviving wild horse species. The world learned of its 2002, 90MIN existence only in 1881 – but less than a hundred years REPUBLIC later it had already been driven to extinction in the Year of the Devil is a 2002 Czech “Mockumentary”  wild, surviving only in the care of zoological gardens. film directed by Petr Zelenka. It stars musicians who act as themselves: Czech folk music band Čechomor, Extraordinary credit for the preservation of the IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD musicians & poets Jaromír Nohavica, Karel Plihal & Przewalski’s horse goes to Zoo, which in British/NZ musician & composer Jaz Coleman. 1959 was charged with managing the international studbook for the species & which has bred over two It was awarded the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary hundred foals. Under the leadership of the late Prof. International Film Festival & won the Findling Award Veselovský, a former director of Prague Zoo, the & the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cottbus Film Festival of became one of the leading organizers Showing at Dorothy Browns Cinema Buckingham St Arrowntown. Young East European Cinema in 2002. In 2003 it won of international transports of Przewalski’s horses back 6 Czech Lions, including Best Film, Best Director, Best For more information www.czechffqueenstown.nz. to their original homeland. Editing, & was nominated for 5 more, including Best Screenplay & Best Cinematography. In the same year it won the Prize at the Trieste Film Festival.

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WWW.CZECHFFQUEENSTOWN.NZ PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY Showing at Dorothy Browns Cinema Buckingham St Arrowntown TŘI OŘÍŠKY PRO POPELKU / FILMOVÝ DOBRODRUH THREE WISHES FOR KAREL ZEMAN / FILM CINDERELLA THE CZECH DOMÁCÍ PÉČE / ADVENTURER KAREL ZEMAN VÁCLAV VORLÍČEK POJEDEME K MOŘI / 1973, 83MIN HOME CARE TOMÁŠ HODAN SLÁVEK HORÁK 2015, 102MIN TO SEE THE SEA Beautifully done Czechoslovak/ 2015, 92MIN East German co-produced A documentary about Karel JIŘÍ MÁDL version of the classical fairy-tale, REPUBLIC  Dedicated home care nurse Zeman, a magician of the big 2014, 72MIN unusually set in winter. IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD Vlasta attends her whimsical screen. Without digital effects The main character of the story patients in her Southern Moravia he brought audiences around is a ten-year-old boy named A young woman is put upon by country region. But when she the world back to prehistory, Thomas who receives a video her stepmother & stepsister. The learns that she is ill & needs help forward to the Moon & deep camera for his birthday & film employs a twist, though, herself she has to reach for it under the Sea. decides to shoot a movie just when a handsome prince comes outside of her comfort zone. knocking. Cinderella does not ‘Why do I make movies? I’m like the famous director Miloš simply fall into the prince’s arms. The film was selected as the looking for terra incognita, a Forman. Therefore, he becomes In this version, he must actively Czech entry for the Best Foreign land on which no filmmaker has the narrator, cameraman & pursue the young woman who Language Film at the 88th yet set foot, a planet where no director of a deeply human is a skilled sharpshooter prone Academy Awards but it was not director has planted his flag of story, thanks to which we get to to wearing hunting outfits. nominated. conquest, a world that exists know his family, mommy, daddy, Cinderella also has three wishes only in fairy tales.’ grandma, school, friends… at her disposal, gained from three magic nuts.

TRABANTEM ŽELARY / ŽELARY DO POSLEDNÍHO DECHU / ONDŘEJ TROJAN TRABANT – FROM 2003, 150MIN AUSTRALIA TO BANGKOK Two lovers - a nurse named DAN PRIBÁŇ Eliska & a surgeon, Richard, join 2016, 96MIN the resistance in during WW II. When they are Czech adventurer Dan Přibáň is discovered, the couple must well-known as the team leader OBECNÁ ŠKOLA / separate & hide. Joza, one of a number of expeditions LIDICE / LIDICE FAIR PLAY of Eliska’s patients, agrees to using what was considered the THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL world’s worst car – the Soviet- PETR NIKOLAEV/ALICE NELLIS ANNA SEDLÁČKOVÁ take her to an isolated cabin JAN SVĚRÁK PELÍŠKY / COSY DENS era, East made little 2011, 126MIN 2014, 100MIN in the small mountain village 1991, 97MIN JAN HŘEBEJK of Zelary until she can reunite Trabant. Where others would opt The movie tells the true story Prague 1983. The eighteen-year- Comedy set in 1945-46, directed 1999, 116MIN with Richard. But Eliska & Joza for all-terrain vehicles to travel of a small village of Lidice near old sprinter Anna, a top athlete, by Jan Svěrák. The screenplay end up living together for two some of the toughest areas on Prague, which was completely is placed on the Programme A bittersweet coming-of-age comes from the pen of his father years & take on the persona of Earth, Přibáň & his colleagues destroyed in June 1942 on of “Specialized Care”. She only story set in the months from Zdeněk Svěrák. The film was husband & wife. chose the plastic Trabant for orders from Adolf Hitler & finds out that she is being doped Christmas 1967 leading up to the expeditions across Central nominated for the Academy after some months, by accident. ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring. The movie received a 2004 Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Asia, Africa & South America. Award for Best Foreign Language Anna refuses the doping, but her Academy Award nomination in Himmler in reprisal for the Last year, they returned from Film in 1991 & is considered to mother Irena decides to keep the Best Foreign Language Film assassination of Reich Protector their most gruelling journey be one of the best Czechoslovak her daughter on doping without category. Reinhard Heydrich. yet: Australia & South East Asia. films ever produced. her knowledge in order to allow A documentary about their her the chance to run in the adventure... Olympic Games & emigrate.