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Director
Tomáš Škrdlant
Original idea
Tomáš Škrdlant
Producer
Jan Krása
Production company
Studio KF ...
Director of photography
František Chmela ...
Editor
Tomáš Škrdlant
IDF Events
2009 East Silver
WWW
www.nevitani.info
Financial Support
State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography

The Unwelcome

Nevítaní, Czech Republic, 2009, 95 min, DV, Health, Longitudinal, Personal View, Social Issues

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A documentary myth. Five stories about a journey from the Underworld.
Since the early 1990s the director has been accompanying and filming five children, now adults, who were rejected by their parents and left in the maternity hospitals right after they were born. The state has taken care of them: from the material point of view they lacked almost nothing - only they lived in another world. Particularly during the Communist era, all children that were different were carefully kept out of sight, hidden in a kind of underworld, far from the rest of the society and its joys and sorrows. The protagonists of the film, however, surmounted the obstacles and entered our world: they are living independently, working, having healthy children, divorcing, and getting married again; some have even met their parents.

Director:

Tomáš Škrdlant

Producer:

Jan Krása

Executive producer:

Jan Krása

Original idea:

Tomáš Škrdlant

Screenplay:

Tomáš Škrdlant

Director of photography:

František Chmela, Filip Havelka, Tomáš Škrdlant