Czech Films 2006-2007 2007 / Bestiář / Czech Republic, Italy, United Kingdom 2007
This tragicomic story tracing the changes in an unusual relationship between an ambitious student and a mysterious stockbroker, is loosely based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Barbara Nesvadbová.
The heroine of this tragicomic story, at home in various exclusive domestic and foreign environments, is the ambitious student Karolína, who embarks upon a love affair with the mysterious stockbroker Alex. Their relationship is full of uncertainties and, for Karolína, is distressing and humiliating. In an attempt to extricate herself from her emotional dependence on her egocentric idol, she throws herself into other casual affairs, during which she tries to alter her behaviour towards men and set the tempo in these new liaisons herself. Her adventurous quest to find true life values, and to discover herself, leads her to take a series of ill-advised steps. The screenplay for this audience-friendly comedy by talented Irena Pavlásková was written in association with successful writer Barbara Nesvadbová.
105 min / Color, 35 mm
International premiere
Director Irena Pavlásková
/ Screenplay Irena Pavlásková, Barbara Nesvadbová
/ Dir. of Photography F. A. Brabec
/ Music Jiří Chlumecký
/ Editor Alois Fišárek
/ Producer Petr Keller, Jaroslav Nietsch, Jiří Jurtin
/ Production Starlite Productions
/ Cast Danica Jurčová, Karel Roden, Marek Vašut, Tomáš Matonoha, Miroslav Etzler, Kryštof Hádek
/ Contact Starlite Pictures, Simply Cinema, s.r.o., Magic Box - division Bioscop
/ Distributor Magic Box - division Bioscop
www: www.bestiar.eu
Irena Pavlásková (b. 1960, Frýdek-Místek) studied documentary film at FAMU (1985). She graduated with the short film A Soap-Bubble World (Svět mýdlových bublinek) about the lifestyle of the disco kids of the 1980s. In 1989 she wrote and directed her successful debut, the psychological drama Time of the Servants (awarded at prestigious festivals). A disillusioning picture of society viewed through a string of extreme, intimate relationships is presented with equal conviction in her subsequent films as well, Corpus delicti (1991), A Time of Debts (1998) and the bitter-sweet romantic comedy The Bitch’s Diary (2007), based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Barbara Nesvadbová. She also offered her original vision of the world in her television work (the series GEN, GENUS, V. I. P., How They Live…, Travel Mania). She established her own production company Eydelle Film in 1997.
Starlite Pictures
Komunardů 30, 170 00, Praha 7
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 283 842 388
Fax: +420 283 842 379
E-mail: [email protected]
Simply Cinema, s.r.o.
Na Pískách 1157/62, 160 00, Praha 6
Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]
Magic Box - division Bioscop
Na Klikovce 7, 140 00, Praha 4
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 221 436 255
Fax: +420 221 436 305
E-mail: [email protected]
Petr Keller
Producer
Irena Prokopová
Distributor
Robert Schaffer
Distributor
Irena Pavlásková
Film Director
Danica Jurčová
Actress
Jaroslav Nietsch
Producer, Producer
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