Czech Films 2009-2010 2010 / Zemský ráj to napohled / Czech Republic 2009
Fifteen-year-old Gábina has the good fortune, or bad luck, to be growing up in the normalisation years of the 1970s and, what’s worse, in a family which has inevitably reached a stalemate with the regime. Her father is a well-known actor disowned by the regime who, having abandoned his family years before, still casts a shadow over his wife and daughters. The film’s reflection of the period and the dissident movement is inspired by Tereza Boučková’s autobiographical novel.
Adolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalisation years of the 1970s, and then she also has to face the reality that her father is a well-known actor disavowed by the regime. Although he abandoned the family years before, his existence casts an ominous shadow over the lives of not only Gábina, but also her older sister and mother, who are trying to find a civilised way through the social mire of the times. Destiny and natural sympathies, however, lure them inevitably towards political dissent, which looks quite different from the accounts of it in history textbooks. An Earthy Paradise for the Eyes is based on the autobiographical novel by Tereza Boučková Indian Run (Indiánský běh, 1991), in which she reflects with detachment and self-irony on her own teenage years and her relationship with her father, the novelist and playwright Pavel Kohout. The viewer is thus able to look at a recent period in Czech history which the film evokes with a singularly meticulous eye.
114 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Irena Pavlásková
/ Screenplay Tereza Boučková
/ Dir. of Photography Diviš Marek
/ Music Jiří Chlumecký
/ Editor Alois Fišárek
/ Producer Jaroslav Kučera, Viktor Schwarcz, Jordi Niubo
/ Production Cineart TV Prague, s.r.o., Česká televize / Czech Television
/ Cast Ondřej Vetchý, Vilma Cibulková, Jiří Dvořák, Dana Marková, Miroslav Etzler, Tereza Voříšková
/ Contact Czech Television - Telexport, Bontonfilm, a.s., Czech Television, Festival Department
/ Distributor Bontonfilm, a.s.
www: www.zemskyraj.com
Irena Pavlásková (b. 1960, Frýdek-Místek, CR) studied documentary filmmaking at FAMU but her interests have always steered her towards features. Her medium-length graduate film A Soap-Bubble World (Svět mýdlových bublinek) already provided the format for her fundamental theme, a fascination for the lives of strong and independent women. This was the theme of not only her debut film Time of the Servants (Čas sluhů), but also other films which moreover often reflect the lives of female characters during a critical time. Filmography: A Soap-Bubble World (1985), Time of the Servants (1989), Corpus Delicti (1991), An Unplanned Meeting (Nesmluvená setkání – TV film, 1994), A Time of Debts (Čas dluhů, 1998), Bestiarium (Bestiář, 2007), An Earthy Paradise for the Eyes.
Czech Television - Telexport
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Bontonfilm, a.s.
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Czech Republic
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Czech Television, Festival Department
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Czech Republic
Phone: +420 261 137 438; +420 261 137 106
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Irena Pavlásková
Film Director
Tereza Ramba
Actress
Jitka Procházková
Festival Organizer, TV Representative
Aleš Danielis
Distributor
Marek Jeníček
Distributor, Producer
Petr Slavík
Distributor, PR & Marketing
Pavel Bělohradský
Producer
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