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Director - Country
Czech Republic
Sklář Marek
Letters from England 2 Under the Influence of Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being
In the 1990s thousands of young Czechs began coming to England - some of them wanted to learn English, others to earn money or to gain experience. At that time director Marek Sklar visited some of them. He asked them about the motivation to leave their country of birth, about their wishes and ambitions and he observed how they coped with life in a foreign country. In this way, the film Free Letters from England originated, combining documentary film with travel feuilleton inspired by Karel Capek's book. Ten years later Marek came back to England, this time with Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Many things have changed: the Czechs no longer work only as cleaners, sellers and bartenders, but they do more qualified jobs, they can better stay in contact with their home due to cheap air tickets and new communication technologies. England has changed too. The London terrorist attack in 2005 raised a series of security clampdowns in the whole country and the British today have ever more debates about immigrants and immigration policy. Of the people who were filmed by Marek ten years before, Daniela is the only one who stayed in England, her new home. But new Czechs are still coming with their dreams, expectations and also doubts.
Grandma, Some Folks from Hlučín Region, a Cow and I
Portraits of people who were born in Hlučín Region and served in the Czechoslovak army as well as in the Nazi German military forces (Wermacht). - Department of documentary film, FAMU - th year, graduation film.
Doctor´s Round Between Life And Death Or Who Will Cure Psysician Duška a His Friends
A documentary film about a group of young czech psysicians who just started their career. They compare their student`s ideas with the reality they now face in czech health care system [only two left that system: first went to a pharmacy industry, second works as cardiologist in Germany]. Some scenes of the material were shot in 2003, so the characters now can comment themselves in their years in faculty and campus-dormitory. Main character Dr. Frantisek Duska works at emergency department{urgent care unit} and likes his job very much, he also teaches biochemistry at the university. He is a big fan of a czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal therefore he makes annual literary walks through favourite Hrabal`s places in Prague for his students.
I-dentity
The internet is a social space offering instant communication, entertainment to your liking, ready information, new ways of making money, easy starting and maintaining of interpersonal relationships or, possibly, anonymous sex. The internet represents a space for a second life. It highlights one's (dis)abilities: a talented person will attract attention, a lecher will have more dates while a dating loser will be alone on the internet as well. However, there is the question as to what degree do the possibilities of the internet change the lives of the internet users and influence social relationships of the "internet" generation? Are values like friendship, love, fidelity and responsibility deformed or accomplished by the internet?
In the 1990s thousands of young Czechs began coming to England - some of them wanted to learn English, others to earn money or to gain experience. At that time director Marek Sklar visited some of them. He asked them about the motivation to leave their country of birth, about their wishes and ambitions and he observed how they coped with life in a foreign country. In this way, the film Free Letters from England originated, combining documentary film with travel feuilleton inspired by Karel Capek's book. Ten years later Marek came back to England, this time with Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Many things have changed: the Czechs no longer work only as cleaners, sellers and bartenders, but they do more qualified jobs, they can better stay in contact with their home due to cheap air tickets and new communication technologies. England has changed too. The London terrorist attack in 2005 raised a series of security clampdowns in the whole country and the British today have ever more debates about immigrants and immigration policy. Of the people who were filmed by Marek ten years before, Daniela is the only one who stayed in England, her new home. But new Czechs are still coming with their dreams, expectations and also doubts.
Grandma, Some Folks from Hlučín Region, a Cow and I
Portraits of people who were born in Hlučín Region and served in the Czechoslovak army as well as in the Nazi German military forces (Wermacht). - Department of documentary film, FAMU - th year, graduation film.
Doctor´s Round Between Life And Death Or Who Will Cure Psysician Duška a His Friends
A documentary film about a group of young czech psysicians who just started their career. They compare their student`s ideas with the reality they now face in czech health care system [only two left that system: first went to a pharmacy industry, second works as cardiologist in Germany]. Some scenes of the material were shot in 2003, so the characters now can comment themselves in their years in faculty and campus-dormitory. Main character Dr. Frantisek Duska works at emergency department{urgent care unit} and likes his job very much, he also teaches biochemistry at the university. He is a big fan of a czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal therefore he makes annual literary walks through favourite Hrabal`s places in Prague for his students.
I-dentity
The internet is a social space offering instant communication, entertainment to your liking, ready information, new ways of making money, easy starting and maintaining of interpersonal relationships or, possibly, anonymous sex. The internet represents a space for a second life. It highlights one's (dis)abilities: a talented person will attract attention, a lecher will have more dates while a dating loser will be alone on the internet as well. However, there is the question as to what degree do the possibilities of the internet change the lives of the internet users and influence social relationships of the "internet" generation? Are values like friendship, love, fidelity and responsibility deformed or accomplished by the internet?
Student Jury Award at the AcademiaFilm Olomouc 2009 for the film "Doctor´s Round Between Life And Death Or Who Will Cure Psysician Duška a His Friends"