Archive of films Scalamare / Scalamare
Czech Republic / Netherlands
2017, 11 min
Section:
Czech Films 2017–2018
Year: 2018
The memorial to the victims of the First World War in Ancona, Italy, whose stairs have a magnificent view of waves breaking on the Adriatic Sea. A couple returning to the place they honeymooned 40 years earlier. A visually elegant miniature directed by world-renowned choreographer Jiří Kylián, where words are unnecessary because dance says it all.
Synopsis
The memorial to the victims of the First World War in Ancona, Italy, whose stairs have a magnificent view of waves breaking on the Adriatic Sea. A couple returning to the place where they honeymooned 40 years earlier. Choreographer Jiří Kylián’s extraordinary imagination describes everything that accumulates in a relationship over so many years: laughter and tears, humor and sarcasm, all overlain with a deep love. Everything is so perfectly expressed through dance and other gestures that words are no longer necessary. This short film is a visually elegant miniature about recapping the past and spontaneously experiencing the present, but also a hopeful look at the future, however short it might be.
Anna Kořínek
About the director
Jiří Kylián (b. 1947, Prague). Selected filmography: Schwarzfahrer (2014, short), Scalamare (2017, short)
Contacts
Kylian Productions BV
Acaciastraat 14, 2565 KB, Haag
Netherlands
www: www.jirikylian.com
About the film
Color, Black & White, DCP
Section: | Czech Films 2017–2018 |
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Director: | Jiří Kylián |
Dir. of Photography: | Jan Malíř |
Music: | Han Otten, Annunzio Mantovani |
Editor: | Filip Malásek |
Art Director: | Jiří Kylián, Joke Visser, Sara Meerman |
Production: | Kylian Productions |
Cast: | Sabine Kupferberg, Peter Jolesch |
Contact: | Kylian Productions BV |
Guests
Jiří Kylián
Film Director
Jan Malíř
Director of Photography