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Cozy Dens ( Pelisky)
Czech Republic (1999)
About the film
This bittersweet comedy of two next-door Prague families begins at
Christmas 1967 and ends August 21, 1968, the day Czechoslovakia was
occupied by the Soviet Army. History is expressed through a typically
Czech coming-of-age story, set at a time when still-novel
western fashions and American-style rock 'n' roll were
casting a spell among the young people of eastern Europe. The Communist
military man's sixteen-year-old son falls hopelessly in love
with his reactionary neighbor's daughter. The adolescents, as in
every age, suffer what they think of as the despotic or just
embarrassing behavior of their parents, but real despotism is always
lurking nearby. As warm and humane as "Pelisky" is, it poses a
serious question with no fixed answer: What is more fundamental, what
you believe in, or the way you act in everyday life?
Director's filmography
Jan Hrebejk (b. 1967) belongs among the most interesting Czech
film directors. He showed his mettle while still studying screenwriting
and script editing at FAMU, Prague, when he directed and produced All
the Things You Want to Know About Sex and Fear to Experience
(1988) and 1948 A.D (1989). For television he
then directed his short acted debut Do Nothing Unless You Have a
Serious Reason To Do So (1991). With Petr Jarchovsky he
wrote a script for Ondrej Trojan's generation comedy Let's
Sing a Song (1990). In 1992 he adapted the novel by Egon
Hostovsky Charity Event for television. He made his debut with a
full-length musical Years of the Jackal (1993),
inspired by Petr Sabach's stories, which won high acclaim from film
critics and became a great box office success. In 1996 he made a
television serial for children Where Stars Do Fall and three
stories to his own scripts for the television series Bakalari.
Hrebejk is now preparing a bitter comedy with Jarchovsky, titled We
Must Help Each Other.
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116 min., color, 35 mm
Czech with English subtitles
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Screenplay: Petr Jarchovsky
Dir. of photography: Jan Malir
Music: courtesy of Sony, Music/Bonton
Editor: Vladimir Barak
Producer: Pavel Borovan (Czech TV), Ondrej Trojan
(T.H.A.)
Production: Total HelpArt (T.H.A.) and Czech
Television
Cast: Miroslav Donutil, Jiri Kodet, Emilia Vasaryova, Simona
Stasova,
Boleslav Polivka, Eva Holubova, Jaroslav Dusek, Stella Zazvorkova, Jiri
Krejcik, Michal Beran, Kristyna Novakova
Contact: Czech TV Telexport
Kavci hory, 140 70 Praha 4
Czech Republic
vox: 42.02.612.12.945
fax: 42.02.612.11.354
email: telexport@czechtv.cz
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