Archive of films No Regrets / Ničeho nelituji

Czech Republic
2003, 83 min

Section: Documentary Films - Competition
Year: 2004

Marriage, motherhood, family life - these intimate and concrete topics are the starting point for a documentary investigation into the sense of human existence. The heroines of the two independent storylines are three women bound by constrictive family ties and 71-year-old Danuše who, in contrast, regrets nothing.

Synopsis

This feature debut by scriptwriter and director Theodora Remundová is made up of two independent stories oscillating between documentary and fiction. The first, Standard, began life as the author’s graduation film at FAMU and describes the painful relationships between three women bound by close family ties – the seventy-five-year-old mother Irena, her widowed fifty-year-old daughter Masha and her twenty-seven-year-old granddaughter Patricia. The protagonists are very open about their long-standing pain, humiliation, tribulations and anxiety which the years of cohabitation have turned into a labyrinth of bitterness. The protagonist of the second half, No Regrets, is seventy-one-year-old Danuše Pánková, who experienced not only happiness and success in her life, but whose relationship to life and the people around her is in sharp contrast to the suffocating relationships in the preceding family. Marriage, motherhood, family life – these intimate and very concrete themes become the starting point for thoughts about the meaning of human existence.

About the director

Theodora Remundová (b. 1974, Prague) drew attention to herself whilst studying documentary film in Karel Vachek’s studio at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with the short films Stations on the Road beyond the Little Clouds (Zastavení na cestě za obláčky, 1994), Just a Little Bit of Luck (Jen malý kousek štěstí, 1994) and Brothers (Bratři, 1996). She established herself as an actress at Na Zábradlí Theatre (Ivanov, Cats’ Play, Wesele) and Rubín Theatre, where she was directed by Alice Nellis in Tennessee Williams’ Two Character’s Play. Alice Nellis also cast her in her own tragicomedy Eeny Meeny (1999), which, after acting in Jan Hřebejek’s tale for television Window (Okno) and a segment of the film Prague Stories (Praha očima..., 1999) became her feature film acting debut. She performed in Drahomíra Vihanová’s Pilgrimage of Students Peter and Jacob (Zpráva o putování studentů Petra a Jakuba, 2000). In Alice Nellis’s Some Secrets (Výlet, 2002) she appeared alongside her actress mother Iva Janžurová and actress sister Sabina.

Contacts

Bistro Films
Jánský vršek 9, 118 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 224 800 201
Fax: +420 224 800 200
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.bistrofilms.com

Czech Television - Telexport
Kavčí hory, 140 70, Praha 4
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 261 137 047
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www: www.ceskatelevize.cz

Falcon a.s.
Radlická 1c/3185, 150 00, Praha 5
Czech Republic
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Česká televize
Kavčí hory, 140 70, Praha 4
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 261 131 111
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.ceskatelevize.cz, ct24.cz

FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts
Smetanovo nábřeží 2, 116 65, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 234 244 301
Fax: +420 234 244 363
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.famu.cz

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About the film

Color, 35 mm

Section:	Documentary Films - Competition

Director:	Theodora Remundová
Screenplay:	Theodora Remundová
Dir. of Photography:	Jakub Šimůnek, Jiří Lívanec
Editor:	Zdeněk Marek
Producer:	Jiří Ptáček
Production:	Česká televize / Czech Television, koprodukce / co-production: Jiří Ptáček, FAMU
Contact:	Bistro Films, Czech Television - Telexport, Falcon a.s., Česká televize, FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts