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Optimist

The Optimist

Optimista, Slovak Republic, 2008, 55 min, Digi Beta, Archive, Docu drama, Portrait
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„The Optimist" is a documentary about the heroic struggle of a man against all odds in the complicated geopolitical space of Central Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Born in 1870 to a Hungarian-Jewish family in today's Slovakia, Lajosz Winter was a man of entrepreneurial genius and unbreakable spirit. He was the founder of the Slovak Balneological Society and a builder and modernizer of the world-famous Slovak spa town of Piešťany. Despite surviving four political regimes and anti-Semitic, anti-Hungarian and anti-capitalist persecution, he remained a steadfast optimist until his death in 1968.
Director:
Dušan Trančík
Producer:
Iveta Pospíšilová
Director of photography:
Ján Meliš
Screenplay:
Erika Podlipná, Dušan Trančík
Editor:
Alena Spustová
Sound:
Vladimír Novosad, Peter Németh
Languages:
Slovak
Subtitles:
English
Trigon Production, s.r.o. Sibírska 39
831 02 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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+421 244 458 477
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www.trigon-production.sk
Email:
trigon@trigon-production.sk
IFF Bratislava 2008, Slovakia
IFF Jewishmotifs Warsaw 2009, Poland
Kino na hranici - Kino na granicy - Češký Těšín/Czieszyn
Letní filmová škola Uherské Hradiště
For TV Film - Slovak Film Award "IGRC" 2009

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