- Occupation
Producer - Country
Czech Republic
Knoblochová Martina
Kytlice, Zimmer Frei
Kytlice, Zimmer Frei explores the absurd history of Central Europe through the little village of Kytlice in former Sudetenland, situated on the Northern border of the Czech Republic. The film introduces Luděk Farkáš, a naive artist and patient of the local mental clinic, and the film director Rozálie Kohoutová, whose family has bought one of the cottages left after the displaced Germans in the 1950s. The disparate duo of Rozálie and Luděk try to understand the absurdity of nationalism that has left its mark in the region.
Roma Boys, the Love Story
The film explores the taboo subject of homosexuality within the Roma community through the personal story of a Roma activist who happens to be gay. Though his job has earned him respect among his peers, by coming out his status is in jeopardy. However, the desire to share his complex story prompted him to write a screenplay based on his life. Partly a documentary about his autobiographical script, the film switches between documentary and narrative storytelling. Owing to its distinctive style, the film offers a glimpse into the protagonist's world as he faces triple discrimination: as a Roma, as a gay man, and as a gay man in the Roma community.
Khera
Visual meditation on the "architecture” of Romany colonies in Eastern Slovakia. – Department of documentary film, FAMU – 3rd year (film poem).
Kytlice, Zimmer Frei explores the absurd history of Central Europe through the little village of Kytlice in former Sudetenland, situated on the Northern border of the Czech Republic. The film introduces Luděk Farkáš, a naive artist and patient of the local mental clinic, and the film director Rozálie Kohoutová, whose family has bought one of the cottages left after the displaced Germans in the 1950s. The disparate duo of Rozálie and Luděk try to understand the absurdity of nationalism that has left its mark in the region.
Roma Boys, the Love Story
The film explores the taboo subject of homosexuality within the Roma community through the personal story of a Roma activist who happens to be gay. Though his job has earned him respect among his peers, by coming out his status is in jeopardy. However, the desire to share his complex story prompted him to write a screenplay based on his life. Partly a documentary about his autobiographical script, the film switches between documentary and narrative storytelling. Owing to its distinctive style, the film offers a glimpse into the protagonist's world as he faces triple discrimination: as a Roma, as a gay man, and as a gay man in the Roma community.
Khera
Visual meditation on the "architecture” of Romany colonies in Eastern Slovakia. – Department of documentary film, FAMU – 3rd year (film poem).
The Ball
Lucerna ballroom. Short trousers of your father's suit. Too much make-up. Smuggled bottle of Becherovka. Parents and their parents. Memories and expectations. Tomáš. Klára. Jirka. Petra and her friend in a low-cut dress. Class photo. Rumba. Vodka. "La dance des dames“. Double vodka. White wine. Solo dance with the class teacher. Waltz with dad. Polka with Tomáš. Smeared make-up. Last vodka. “Hey, get your hands off me!” “The ball is a social event, usually of ceremonial nature, which is associated with dancing and the sound of music. Among other things, this event brings together people who would otherwise never have met.” (Czech Wikipedia)
Lucerna ballroom. Short trousers of your father's suit. Too much make-up. Smuggled bottle of Becherovka. Parents and their parents. Memories and expectations. Tomáš. Klára. Jirka. Petra and her friend in a low-cut dress. Class photo. Rumba. Vodka. "La dance des dames“. Double vodka. White wine. Solo dance with the class teacher. Waltz with dad. Polka with Tomáš. Smeared make-up. Last vodka. “Hey, get your hands off me!” “The ball is a social event, usually of ceremonial nature, which is associated with dancing and the sound of music. Among other things, this event brings together people who would otherwise never have met.” (Czech Wikipedia)
Martina Knoblochová was born on the 1st of January 1986 in Prague. A graduate of the Czech-French Jan Neruda high school, she has recently completed her fourth year in FAMU’s department of production. Besides producing student films (‘Grandmaster’, ‘Roma Boys’, ‘Alda’…), she is also one of the co-founders of the Prague Free Fashion Weekend, a festival of alternative fashion in Prague, and took part in producing several episodes of the acclaimed series ‘Kosmopolis’ for Czech Television. She is currently working on a documentary film ‘Kytlice, Zimmer Frei’ (directed by Rozálie Kohoutová). As part of this work, last year she participated in the international documentary workshop Ex Oriente Film. Last year she spent 5 months in an internship in Nice (Villa Arson). Presently, besides producing documentary films and studying, she works with the Czech Film Centre, managing the Czech-Slovak pavilion at the 2011 International Film Festival in Cannes. She speaks English and French fluently.
Sokol de Paris, director: Rozálie Kohoutová, FAMU 2010;
Alda, director: Viera Čákanyová, FAMU 2009;
Roma Boys, director: Rozálie Kohoutová FAMU 2009;
Grandmaster, director: Rozálie Kohoutová, FAMU 2008;
About the Shoes, director: Rozálie Kohoutová, FAMU 2007.
FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Smetanovo nábřeží 2
116 65 Prague 1
Smetanovo nábřeží 2
116 65 Prague 1
Hypermarket Film
Kubelíkova 27
130 00 Prague 3
Kubelíkova 27
130 00 Prague 3
Seminar for Documentary Directors and Producers - 2008