Archive of films Schmitke / Schmitke

Czech Republic / Germany
2014, 94 min

Section: Czech Films 2014–2015
Year: 2015

This graduate film by Štěpán Altrichter is a visually enchanting comedy mystery set in the Ore Mountains (Krušné Hory), which form a natural border between Germany and the Czech Republic. A level-headed engineer played by familiar German actor Peter Kurth arrives to repair a creaking old wind turbine. Out there in the misty woods he also goes in search of something else deep inside him.


Synopsis

Reticent engineer Julius Schmitke is a whizz at anything wind turbine-related. He sets off with his verbose colleague for the Czech side of the Ore Mountains in order to fix a creaking old wind turbine. Out there in the remote woodlands Schmitke senses something is calling out to him, something mysterious that has started to permeate his very being. “Some people call this the Czech Twin Peaks,” says debut director Štěpán Altrichter, “since, as in David Lynch’s show, strangers come to a small town where some sort of system is already in place and the locals aren’t very keen on the idea of intruders sticking their nose in their affairs.” The filmmaker cast Peter Kurth in the role of Schmitke who, apart from his theatre work, is familiar from the TV crime series “Crime Scene” (“Tatort”) and films by Andreas Dresen. In Schmitke Altrichter concocts an absurd Nordic atmosphere, taking his heroes into the barren mountains and observing their actions in statically depersonalised shots chilled with cold hues.

Šimon Šafránek

About the director

Štěpán Altrichter

Štěpán Altrichter (b. 1981, Brno) grew up in Prague and Southern Germany. He studied philosophy and psychology in Berlin, and later film direction at Prague’s FAMU and the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in Potsdam. He has made several shorts, both documentaries and features. Schmitke is his feature film debut. The film was premiered at the Busan IFF in South Korea and won Best Debut at Cottbus in Germany in 2014.

Contacts

Produkce Radim Procházka
Řehořova 54, 130 00, Praha 3
Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.radimprochazka.com

Artcam Films
Rašínovo nábřeží 6, 128 00, Praha 2
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 221 411 619
Fax: +420 221 411 699
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.artcam.cz

About the film

Color, DCP

Section: Czech Films 2014–2015
   
Director: Štěpán Altrichter
Screenplay: Jan Fusek, Tomáš Končinský, Štěpán Altrichter podle povídky / based on a story by Tomáš Končinský
Dir. of Photography: Cristian Pîrjol
Music: Johannes Repka
Editor: Phillip Wenning, Andrea Schumacher
Art Director: Barbora Kačena
Producer: Tomáš Vach, Jörg Trentmann, Radim Procházka
Production: Produkce Radim Procházka
Coproduction: Credo:Film
Cast: Peter Kurth, Johann Jürgens, Helena Dvořáková, Jakub Žáček, Petr Vršek
Contact: Produkce Radim Procházka
Distributor: Artcam Films
   
www: www.schmitkefilm.com

Guests

Štěpán Altrichter

Tomáš Vach

Producer


Hedvika Petrželková

Distributor, PR & Marketing

Sylvie Leray

Distributor, Producer


Kamila Dohnalová

Festival Organizer, Producer

Anna Kopecká

Distributor, Festival Organizer


Artemio Benki

Distributor, Film Director, Producer

Radim Procházka

Film Director, Producer, Tutor / Trainer


Daniel Strejc

Producer

Peter Kurth

Actor


Jakub Žáček

Actor

Klára Skřenková

PR & Marketing, Producer, Service Company Rep.


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