- Occupation
Producer - Country
Czech Republic
Růžička Daniel
Parenting Quadruplets
At the end of the 1950s, the Hour family and their quadruplets made Zbraslavice near Kutná Hora a showcase city in the building of socialism: one visitor followed another - journalists, filmmakers, party delegations... After more than 40 years, the same thing happened to the Januš family from the Moravian village of Blišice; only this time the media hype was not so great. Both quadruplets have an older sister so the initial conditions of both families were very similar. The political regime has changed, patron collectives are now called sponsors, but the worries and problems involved in raising children and the financial responsibility involved have not changed a bit. The documentary compares the situation of both families and, thanks to extensive archive footage, gives the Hours a chance to evaluate.
Remembering in Reflection (Remembering)
Two documentary films about disease, fear and hope – Reflection (dir. Evald Schorm, 1965) and Remembering (dir. Ivan Vojnár, 2007) – which chime together, in spite of being divided for more than 40 years. This documentary film brings together Evald Schorm and Ivan Vojnár. Schorm's film Zrcadlení inspired Vojnár's film poll that refers back to the search for lost ideals and the personal and social fight against fear. Is physical pain and disease a metaphor for a more general affliction? Schorm's Zrcadlení (1964) shifted the cinéma vérité style closer to a film essay, without aspiring to capture the sociological implications of the subject. Through questions about happiness which he posed to hospital patients, the director turns to the viewer and confronts human existence with the natural flow of time. Jan Špáta's authentic photography with its poetic compositions supplies a new thematic layer to the film; the protagonists often remain outside the camera's view, which helps to add general validity to very personal statements. Ivan Vojnár's project Rozpomínání revisits the hospital environment yet the questions have a clear sociological aspect - the director changes Schorm's "how to live" from its philosophical and figurative meaning into the everyday struggle with social and political realities. The range of respondents is very broad to include all social and age groups. The topics focus on the life in the Czech Republic at the beginning of the 21st century; in addition to questions regarding general values, happiness, sympathy or wealth, Vojnár asks about politics, Czech national character or attitudes to minorities. Authentic, mostly work environments of the protagonists also play an important part in the film.
Justice for Marie Svejdova
As part of Mene Tekel - International Festival Against Totalitarianism, Evil and Violence, students of the Faculty of Law at Charles University launched an interesting experiment under the auspices of film director Jan Řeřicha who is also the festival's director. They participate in the carefully reenacted trial of farmer Marie Švejdová, an innocent victim of forced collectivization. She was arrested after she tried to fight the efforts to enforce collective farming. Using her common sense, she was never fooled by the collectivization propaganda. This documentary film by Pavel Křemen not only depicts the reconstruction of the court trial, but also follows reactions of the law students as they get acquainted with the monstrous judicial machinery of the time.
Dreams about My Father
A mysterious collage on the monster trial of the 1950s, one of whose victims was the weak-current electricity expert Alfréd Plocek. His tragic fate is uncovered by his granddaughter Lucie, who, through archive documents, discovers the shocking details of Communist lawlessness. This collage of totalitarian crimes, which emphasises the need for repentance, also uses some acted scenes. One of them reconstructs Plocek's last visit from relatives before he was executed in November 1951. The second part of the film looks at the public prosecutor who sent an innocent man to his death, and whose daughter Plocek's granddaughter subsequently meets.
Fledglings
Sixteen eight-year-old classmates mostly of Roma descent are the protagonists of Fledglings, a 16-part docu-soap in which the children were given cameras and, for a period of one year, captured the world and events around them. Shot from September 2009 to August 2010, Fledglings is the first Czech docu-soap project, with a few elements of reality show. In more than 500 hours of footage, the children at times find themselves in situations they would not otherwise be exposed to but finding the right solution and approach is always entirely up to them.
Bezděz (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Blaník (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Daniel Kučera – Pitchegigwaneh, Painter and Visionary (The Fate of Talent)
Daniel tried leaving the borstal. For ten years he lived in the Canadian mountains, got to know the secrets of the shamans from whom he received the name Lucifer. He learned to paint in symbols, understand the language of animals, trees and rocks. He returned home, is looking for a home and wants to teach people how to live in harmony with nature.
Hostýn (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Kleť (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Kozákov (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Ladi Fričová-Boháčová – Artist (The Fate of Talent)
Ladi Fričová-Boháčová is a cosmopolitan young woman. Thanks to her father, a doctor working in the UN, she's lived in India, Indonesia, Burma and Nepal since she was three and thus had the chance to get to know other cultures, other lives and ways of thinking. Ever since she was a child she's painted, and these cultures have had a primary influence on her artistic expression. Ornamental motifs and spirituality along with colour began to appear in her work despite the fact that she graduated from an art college in England. Her work has been significantly influenced by Indian painting professor Om Prakash Sharma, who has taught her since she was a child. Even though Ladi is a “woman of the world” her destiny is to search for a home. Both abroad and in her native Czech lands she’s considered a foreigner. But she hasn’t lost her Czech roots.
Markéta Mazourová – hráčka na bicí nástroje a skladatelka (The Fate of Talent)
Ever since she was a child she’d demonstrated great musical talent and a gift for rhythm. She’d drum on whatever she could. But her dream to be the greatest drummer in the world was never fulfilled. Even though she began to play in rock groups, men wouldn't take her seriously and so she never achieved significant success. She showed, however, that being a drummer didn’t merely mean you beat the drum set. After studying the piano at the conservatory, she discovered the beauty and variety of drumming instruments that are becoming everywhere in the world an instrument equal in stature to the others. Though still not in the Czech Republic. Markéta studied the drums and composition at AMU and decided to begin to compose for various drums. It took a lot to convince organizers of festivals to include concerts for drums in their programme. Markéta plays rock, jazz, but even more difficult compositions of a classical repertoire. She opted for the non-traditional and path less worn. Today, after five years of concerting, she’s managed to wipe away the borders between instruments and genres, and her concerts are sold out.
Milešovka (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Pálava (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Petřín (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
At the end of the 1950s, the Hour family and their quadruplets made Zbraslavice near Kutná Hora a showcase city in the building of socialism: one visitor followed another - journalists, filmmakers, party delegations... After more than 40 years, the same thing happened to the Januš family from the Moravian village of Blišice; only this time the media hype was not so great. Both quadruplets have an older sister so the initial conditions of both families were very similar. The political regime has changed, patron collectives are now called sponsors, but the worries and problems involved in raising children and the financial responsibility involved have not changed a bit. The documentary compares the situation of both families and, thanks to extensive archive footage, gives the Hours a chance to evaluate.
Remembering in Reflection (Remembering)
Two documentary films about disease, fear and hope – Reflection (dir. Evald Schorm, 1965) and Remembering (dir. Ivan Vojnár, 2007) – which chime together, in spite of being divided for more than 40 years. This documentary film brings together Evald Schorm and Ivan Vojnár. Schorm's film Zrcadlení inspired Vojnár's film poll that refers back to the search for lost ideals and the personal and social fight against fear. Is physical pain and disease a metaphor for a more general affliction? Schorm's Zrcadlení (1964) shifted the cinéma vérité style closer to a film essay, without aspiring to capture the sociological implications of the subject. Through questions about happiness which he posed to hospital patients, the director turns to the viewer and confronts human existence with the natural flow of time. Jan Špáta's authentic photography with its poetic compositions supplies a new thematic layer to the film; the protagonists often remain outside the camera's view, which helps to add general validity to very personal statements. Ivan Vojnár's project Rozpomínání revisits the hospital environment yet the questions have a clear sociological aspect - the director changes Schorm's "how to live" from its philosophical and figurative meaning into the everyday struggle with social and political realities. The range of respondents is very broad to include all social and age groups. The topics focus on the life in the Czech Republic at the beginning of the 21st century; in addition to questions regarding general values, happiness, sympathy or wealth, Vojnár asks about politics, Czech national character or attitudes to minorities. Authentic, mostly work environments of the protagonists also play an important part in the film.
Justice for Marie Svejdova
As part of Mene Tekel - International Festival Against Totalitarianism, Evil and Violence, students of the Faculty of Law at Charles University launched an interesting experiment under the auspices of film director Jan Řeřicha who is also the festival's director. They participate in the carefully reenacted trial of farmer Marie Švejdová, an innocent victim of forced collectivization. She was arrested after she tried to fight the efforts to enforce collective farming. Using her common sense, she was never fooled by the collectivization propaganda. This documentary film by Pavel Křemen not only depicts the reconstruction of the court trial, but also follows reactions of the law students as they get acquainted with the monstrous judicial machinery of the time.
Dreams about My Father
A mysterious collage on the monster trial of the 1950s, one of whose victims was the weak-current electricity expert Alfréd Plocek. His tragic fate is uncovered by his granddaughter Lucie, who, through archive documents, discovers the shocking details of Communist lawlessness. This collage of totalitarian crimes, which emphasises the need for repentance, also uses some acted scenes. One of them reconstructs Plocek's last visit from relatives before he was executed in November 1951. The second part of the film looks at the public prosecutor who sent an innocent man to his death, and whose daughter Plocek's granddaughter subsequently meets.
Fledglings
Sixteen eight-year-old classmates mostly of Roma descent are the protagonists of Fledglings, a 16-part docu-soap in which the children were given cameras and, for a period of one year, captured the world and events around them. Shot from September 2009 to August 2010, Fledglings is the first Czech docu-soap project, with a few elements of reality show. In more than 500 hours of footage, the children at times find themselves in situations they would not otherwise be exposed to but finding the right solution and approach is always entirely up to them.
Bezděz (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Blaník (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Daniel Kučera – Pitchegigwaneh, Painter and Visionary (The Fate of Talent)
Daniel tried leaving the borstal. For ten years he lived in the Canadian mountains, got to know the secrets of the shamans from whom he received the name Lucifer. He learned to paint in symbols, understand the language of animals, trees and rocks. He returned home, is looking for a home and wants to teach people how to live in harmony with nature.
Hostýn (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Kleť (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Kozákov (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Ladi Fričová-Boháčová – Artist (The Fate of Talent)
Ladi Fričová-Boháčová is a cosmopolitan young woman. Thanks to her father, a doctor working in the UN, she's lived in India, Indonesia, Burma and Nepal since she was three and thus had the chance to get to know other cultures, other lives and ways of thinking. Ever since she was a child she's painted, and these cultures have had a primary influence on her artistic expression. Ornamental motifs and spirituality along with colour began to appear in her work despite the fact that she graduated from an art college in England. Her work has been significantly influenced by Indian painting professor Om Prakash Sharma, who has taught her since she was a child. Even though Ladi is a “woman of the world” her destiny is to search for a home. Both abroad and in her native Czech lands she’s considered a foreigner. But she hasn’t lost her Czech roots.
Markéta Mazourová – hráčka na bicí nástroje a skladatelka (The Fate of Talent)
Ever since she was a child she’d demonstrated great musical talent and a gift for rhythm. She’d drum on whatever she could. But her dream to be the greatest drummer in the world was never fulfilled. Even though she began to play in rock groups, men wouldn't take her seriously and so she never achieved significant success. She showed, however, that being a drummer didn’t merely mean you beat the drum set. After studying the piano at the conservatory, she discovered the beauty and variety of drumming instruments that are becoming everywhere in the world an instrument equal in stature to the others. Though still not in the Czech Republic. Markéta studied the drums and composition at AMU and decided to begin to compose for various drums. It took a lot to convince organizers of festivals to include concerts for drums in their programme. Markéta plays rock, jazz, but even more difficult compositions of a classical repertoire. She opted for the non-traditional and path less worn. Today, after five years of concerting, she’s managed to wipe away the borders between instruments and genres, and her concerts are sold out.
Milešovka (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Pálava (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
Petřín (Magical Mountains of Bohemia and Moravia)
A thirteen-part cycle of the travels of actress Květa Fialová and natural historian and philosopher Václav Cílek in search of the memory and secrets or our iconic mountains.
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- Children of Stalinism (2008 - 2011) - documentary series
Czech TV
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Kavčí hory
140 70 Prague 4