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Director - Country
Czech Republic
Sommer Jakub
Love Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
A documentary love story. A mother and daughter's view of the relationships between eight couples from various generations over the course of a year. A search for what most connects people, and at the same time divides them. The daughter mostly looks at young couples who are still choosing their life partners. Her mother looks at couples who have come to terms with the decision they made long ago, or are learning how to. A mosaic of human fates connected by the same simple, and yet complicated, desire to love and be loved.
Homo Sapiens 2000
Four Prague characters (a transvestite, a news vendor, a travelling violinist and a man earning his living as an art model at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts) at the beginning of the new millennium. FAMU, Department of Documentary Film (3rd year)
Life in the Cemetery
What is it like to be an undertaker? A report from one un(usual) Prague cemetery. FAMU, Department of Documentary Film (1st year)
ELFilm
An unconventional love story narrated with lightness and humour.
My Computer
Don't let the computer take over your soul.
Life at the Castle
A portrait of an eccentric custodian who is trying to save the half-ruined castle at Jezeří, endangered by a coal shaft, harsh fate and human indifference. - Department of Documentary Film, FAMU - 2nd year.
21 Views of Prague in the 21st Century: Cultural Prague
The young director Jakub Sommer presents Prague as a place pulsating with and charged full of culture. The documentary´s central line is a mosaic of various features from Prague´s cultural life. It mainly focuses on the pallet of cultural events that took place in Prague from the summer to the winter of 2004.
A documentary love story. A mother and daughter's view of the relationships between eight couples from various generations over the course of a year. A search for what most connects people, and at the same time divides them. The daughter mostly looks at young couples who are still choosing their life partners. Her mother looks at couples who have come to terms with the decision they made long ago, or are learning how to. A mosaic of human fates connected by the same simple, and yet complicated, desire to love and be loved.
Homo Sapiens 2000
Four Prague characters (a transvestite, a news vendor, a travelling violinist and a man earning his living as an art model at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts) at the beginning of the new millennium. FAMU, Department of Documentary Film (3rd year)
Life in the Cemetery
What is it like to be an undertaker? A report from one un(usual) Prague cemetery. FAMU, Department of Documentary Film (1st year)
ELFilm
An unconventional love story narrated with lightness and humour.
My Computer
Don't let the computer take over your soul.
Life at the Castle
A portrait of an eccentric custodian who is trying to save the half-ruined castle at Jezeří, endangered by a coal shaft, harsh fate and human indifference. - Department of Documentary Film, FAMU - 2nd year.
21 Views of Prague in the 21st Century: Cultural Prague
The young director Jakub Sommer presents Prague as a place pulsating with and charged full of culture. The documentary´s central line is a mosaic of various features from Prague´s cultural life. It mainly focuses on the pallet of cultural events that took place in Prague from the summer to the winter of 2004.
Born in 1976, Prague. Director, cinematographer, scriptwriter. In 2004, he graduated from FAMU, Department of Documentary Film. While at FAMU, he made several films that received 26 awards at local and international film festivals. Two of his student works were released as preview films. His very first documentary film Life at the Cemetery (Život na hřbitově, 1997) tells the story of three people whose lives become linked at a cemetery. ELFilm (2001) is an autobiographic short film detailing an unconventional love story. My Computer (Maj Kompjutr, 2002) is his thesis film about three friends (director, violinist and a sex-shop owner) who are addicted to computer games. Since 2006, he has focused mainly on narrative films (made-for-TV film Stop, 2007) and currently works on the development of his feature debut. Cinematographer for thirteen documentary films by director Olga Sommerová, e.g., Konec světa v srdci Evropy (2002) and Máňa po deseti letech (2003), also cooperated with director Igor Chaun on his documentary films Kráska a zvíře (2003) and Operace Hokejdo (2004). Selected filmography: 1997 – Life at the Cemetery / Život na hřbitově; 1999 – Homo Sapiens 2000; 2001 – ELFilm; 2002 – GEN: Aleš Valenta; 2002 – My Computer / Maj Kompjutr; 2004 – Praha Kulturní; 2006 – Pandurango (Maroko, Senegal); 2007 – Stop.