Archive of films Frankie Is a Womanizer / František je děvkař

Czech Republic
2008, 83 min

Section: Czech Films 2007-2008
Year: 2008

The hero of this comedy by debuting director Jan Prušinovský is a 40-year-old psychiatrist whose perfect life goes into freefall. František likes women too much to content himself with just one. How will he cope with losing his betrayed wife, his new house and his medical diploma?

Synopsis

As a psychiatrist, Frankie (František Soukenický) would like to have his private life under perfect control, except that he’s too fond of women. In addition to his wife Eliška, he’s in several other relationships, a problem which one day gets out of hand. Now aged forty with an established, lucrative practice and a new dream house, he suddenly doesn’t know where to turn and what to save first. His secret life as a womanizer has come out into the open and he sees only too well how fast his “perfect” life, envied by everyone around him, comes to an unexpected and total end: one day he loses his job, the roof over his head and his wife. “I tried to introduce hyperbole and humour into the film which at times might get a bit absurd. Occasionally I let myself go a little and so there are dramatic moments there, too,” says the director of his story. Jan Prušinovský is also responsible for both the story and the screenplay for his entertaining comedy feature debut.

About the director

Jan Prušinovský (b. 1979, Hořovice) studied script editing and screenwriting at Prague’s FAMU. He was involved in the script for Karel Janák’s summer comedy The Rafters (Rafťáci, 2006) and the short television film Taxi (2006). He also wrote the screenplays for his college shorts The Lesson of God (Boží lekce, 2003), Ládík Is the Best in the County (Ládík je nejlepší v okrese, 2004), Bubble Bath Is the Best (Nejlepší je pěnivá, 2005) and Gallery (Galerie, 2006), all of which he directed. The comedy Frankie Is a Womanizer (2008) is his feature debut. He also worked on music clips and was assistant director on the set of Jan Hřebejk’s tragicomedy Teddy Bear (Medvídek, 2007).

Contacts

Evolution Films
Senovážné náměstí 10, 110 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 222 240 770
Fax: +420 222 240 770
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.evolutionfilms.cz

Bioscop (Magicbox a.s.)
Na Klikovce 7, 140 00, Praha 4
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 221 436 100
Fax: +420 221 436 305
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.bioscop.cz

Intramovies
Via Eustachio Manfredi 15, 00197, Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 064 577 7930
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.intramovies.com

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About the film

Color, 35 mm
International premiere

Section:	Czech Films 2007-2008

Director:	Jan Prušinovský
Screenplay:	Jan Prušinovský
Dir. of Photography:	Petr Bednář
Music:	Petr Hapka
Editor:	Otakar Šenovský
Producer:	Ondřej Zima, Pavel Berčík
Production:	Evolution Films s.r.o.
Cast:	Josef Polášek, Ela Lehotská, Martin Pechlát, Zdena Hadrbolcová, Petra Nesvačilová, Leoš Noha, Marika Procházková, Petr Čtvrtníček, Barbara Trojanová
Contact:	Evolution Films, Bioscop (Magicbox a.s.), Intramovies
Distributor:	Bioscop (Magicbox a.s.)

www:	www.frantisekjedevkar.cz