- Director
Lukáš Kokeš ...
- Original idea
Klára Tasovská
- Producer
Tomáš Hrubý ...
- Production company
nutprodukce ...
- Director of photography
Lukáš Kokeš
- Editor
Alexandra Gojdičová
- IDF Events
2012 Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films ...
- Planned premiere
October 2012
- Sales
Taskovski Films
Fortress
Pevnost, Czech Republic, 2012, 70 min, HD, Creative, Politics, Reportage
Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. Imagine a space where the time has frozen. The time's stopped and life's been stuck in a shape resembling the era of Soviet Union. Somehow, people got used to the reign of the secret police and the fear of being spied on. Soviet-style propaganda of the authoritative, power-based regime of the president Igor Smirnov turns most of the PMR residents into simple workmen, without any will to understand how unbearable their situation is. Smirnov has been leading this non-existing country for as long as twenty years. The film focuses on a couple of characters being stuck in this geo-political gap, in between the European Union and Russia, in between the present and the past, crime and decency, decadence and hope for change. Framed by the time of presidential election, the film analyzes the organization of “no-state” and the rules of a regular life within.
Director:
Klára Tasovská, Lukáš Kokeš
Producer:
Tomáš Hrubý, Pavla Kubečková
Executive producer:
Mikuláš Novotný
Original idea:
Klára Tasovská
Screenplay:
Klára Tasovská
Director of photography:
Lukáš Kokeš
Editor:
Alexandra Gojdičová
Sound:
Klára Tasovská
Languages:
Russian
Subtitles:
Czech, English
nutprodukce
(Production company)
Umělecká 7
170 00 Prague 7, Czech Republic
FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
(Coproduction company)
Smetanovo nábřeží 2
116 65 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Taskovski Films
7 Granard Business Centre
Bunns Lane
NW7 2DQ London, United Kingdom
CZECH JOY – best Czech documentary -
Jihlava IDFF 2012, Czech Republic
Official Selection -
Cronograf 2013, Moldavia
Opening Film -
Docudays 2013, Ukraine
One World 2013, Czech Republic
Best film -
One World Romania 2013, Romania
CPH:DOX 2012, Denmark
goEast 2013, Germany