Archive of films FC Roma / FC Roma

Czech Republic
2016, 76 min

Section: Documentary Films - Competition
Year: 2016

Last season, when a new team, consisting primarily of Romany players, made it into the lowest Czech football league, most of their opponents decided to boycott them. Will the FC Roma teammates be able to convince everyone that they’re not a bunch of ruffians from the fringes of society and that they just want to play football?


Synopsis

Last season, when a new team, made up primarily of Romany players, entered the lowest Czech football league, local fans and functionaries couldn’t help but recall the infamous fate of the now-defunct Děčín football club, whose troubled existence ended as the result of a mass brawl during a game in 2011. Appearances can be deceiving, however, as the engaging coach tries to demonstrate as he faces a wall of prejudice from the very outset that proves nearly impossible to surmount. “If I don’t like somebody then I’m gonna try to thrash them,” he remarks in wonder at the attitude of his competitors, the majority of whom have boycotted their matches with the Romany club. Maintaining a spirit of observation, the two talented directors take a look at the team’s frequently humorous yet, at times, chilling fight against the animosity of most of the population. Will the players of the FC Roma club dispel the widespread belief that their matches are plagued by insults, kicks, and punches? Will their promotion to a higher league convince everyone that they are not a bunch of ruffians from the fringes of society, and that they just want to play football?

Martin Horyna

About the director

Tomáš Bojar, Rozálie Kohoutová

Tomáš Bojar (b. 1981, Prague) graduated in political science and law from Charles University in Prague. In partnership with Pavel Abrahám, he created the documentary RAPublic (2008) and Two Nil (2012), both screened at Karlovy Vary. The second picture above all demonstrates that Bojar approaches cinematic composition as a conceptual challenge. At Karlovy Vary in 2014 he also sat on the documentary film jury. Rozálie Kohoutová (b. 1985, Prague) studied Romany culture at Charles University and documentary filmmaking at FAMU; she also studied for a year at the Sorbonne. Her comprehensive knowledge of the Romany community came in handy during the shooting of FC Roma. She also shot two feature-length docs – Kytlice, Zimmer Frei (2012) and Jenica & Perla (2015) – and contributed to the film project Gottland (2014).

Contacts

nutprodukce
Píseckého 333/15, 150 00, Praha 5
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 731 163 041
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.nutprodukce.cz

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About the film

Color, DCP
World premiere

Section: Documentary Films - Competition
   
Director: Tomáš Bojar, Rozálie Kohoutová
Screenplay: Tomáš Bojar, Rozálie Kohoutová
Dir. of Photography: Jiří Chod, Rozálie Kohoutová
Editor: Evženie Brabcová
Producer: Pavla Janoušková Kubečková
Production: Nutprodukce
Coproduction: HBO Europe
Contact: nutprodukce

Guests

Pavla Janoušková Kubečková

Producer

Jiří Chod

Director of Photography


Evženie Brabcová

Editor, Film Director

Martina Knoblochová


Adam Levý

Sound Director

Pavla Brožková

PR & Marketing


Pavel Kašuka

Tomáš Bojar

Film Director, Screenwriter


Rozálie Kohoutová

Film Director

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