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An Earthy Paradise for the Eyes

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.

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Synopsis

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.

About the film

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

About the director

Irena Pavlásková

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.

Contacts

Czech Television - Telexport
Kavčí hory, 140 70, Praha 4
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 261 137 047
E-mail: [email protected]

Bontonfilm, a.s.
Na Poříčí 1047/26, 110 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 257 415 111
E-mail: [email protected]

Czech Television, Festival Department
Kavčí Hory, 140 70, Praha 4
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 261 137 438; +420 261 137 106
Fax: +420 261 211 354
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

Guests

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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