- Director
Otakáro Maria Schmidt - Original idea
Otakáro Maria Schmidt ... - Producer
Ondřej Beránek - Production company
Punk Film ... - Director of photography
Jiří Strnad - Editor
Attila Kovács - IDF Events
2011 Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films - Planned premiere
March 2013
Landscape – Mirror of the Soul
Krajina, zrcadlo duše, Czech Republic, 75 min, HD, Anthropology, Creative, Culture, Environmental, Nature, Religion, Society
The first documentary film in 3D. A film about wandering through the countryside that brings us to the doorstep of our soul.
Do we really believe that it is possible to stay healthy in the midst of broken families and a broken world? In the course of the film, Marek Orko Vácha explores the landscape, wandering like a Czech David Atenborough. He sets out at the end of winter/start of spring from the confluence of a river and a sea near a modern hotel. Pilgrim Orko cuts himself a walking staff and heads upstream towards the rising sun. He walks the barely waking land, lantern in hand, like a mighty prince. By the end of the film he reaches the start of all things, in the mountains, in the virgin forest of Boubín, at the river's fountainhead, clear and cleansing of waters, where a small village chapel and a simple wooden cross stand amid overgrown and abandoned trees. The sun sets on the first snowdrops peaking from the mossy banks in promise of the coming spring. The use of 3D photography here is essential to the portrayal of nature and the turning seasons. We want the viewers to experience a photorealistic vision of nature, drawing them inside our filmic landscape.
Do we really believe that it is possible to stay healthy in the midst of broken families and a broken world? In the course of the film, Marek Orko Vácha explores the landscape, wandering like a Czech David Atenborough. He sets out at the end of winter/start of spring from the confluence of a river and a sea near a modern hotel. Pilgrim Orko cuts himself a walking staff and heads upstream towards the rising sun. He walks the barely waking land, lantern in hand, like a mighty prince. By the end of the film he reaches the start of all things, in the mountains, in the virgin forest of Boubín, at the river's fountainhead, clear and cleansing of waters, where a small village chapel and a simple wooden cross stand amid overgrown and abandoned trees. The sun sets on the first snowdrops peaking from the mossy banks in promise of the coming spring. The use of 3D photography here is essential to the portrayal of nature and the turning seasons. We want the viewers to experience a photorealistic vision of nature, drawing them inside our filmic landscape.
Director:
Otakáro Maria Schmidt
Producer:
Ondřej Beránek
Original idea:
Marek Orko Vácha, Otakáro Maria Schmidt
Screenplay:
Marek Orko Vácha, Otakáro Maria Schmidt
Dramaturgy:
Jana Hádková
Director of photography:
Jiří Strnad
Editor:
Attila Kovács
Sound:
Vojtěch Komárek
Music:
Vojtěch Komárek
Languages:
Czech
Subtitles:
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Punk Film, s.r.o.
(Production company)
V Jirchářích 8
110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic Czech TV (Coproduction company) Kavčí hory
140 70 Prague 4, Czech Republic
110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic Czech TV (Coproduction company) Kavčí hory
140 70 Prague 4, Czech Republic
Film Europe
Branická 1950/209
140 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic
140 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic
Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films