Archive of films Gospel According to Brabenec / Evangelium podle Brabence
Czech Republic
2014, 90 min
Section:
Documentary Films - Out of Competition
Year: 2015
Renowned Czech documentarist Miroslav Janek’s latest offering draws on informal interviews that journalist Renata Kalenská conducted with poet, gardener, and current leading figure of the legendary rock band The Plastic People of the Universe, Vratislav Brabenec.
Synopsis
The latest offering from renowned Czech documentarist Miroslav Janek is based on a book of interviews conducted by journalist Renata Kalenská with poet, gardener, and current leading figure of the legendary rock band The Plastic People of the Universe, Vratislav Brabenec. This is no traditional biopic chronologically recounting basic life data, but an attempt to capture the charisma, opinions, and approach to the world of one of the most distinctive figures of the Czech underground. The improvised, highly spontaneous interviews take place during various excursions into the countryside, while visiting Valdice prison and, somewhat symbolically, at a gas station in Mikulov near the Austrian border. The director sensitively interweaves the relaxed and, in places, deliberately freewheeling talks about important episodes in Brabenec’s life (imbued with his spiritual-ecological temperament) with poetic moments of a meditative atmosphere.
Filip Šebek
About the director
Miroslav Janek (b. 1954, Náchod, Czechoslovakia) started out as an amateur filmmaker. In 1980 he emigrated to the USA where he collaborated with a number of documentarists (e.g. Godfrey Reggio), returning to his homeland in the mid 1990s. He achieved great success with a work about blind children taking pictures, The Unseen (1996 – Best Documentary Film ex aequo at the Karlovy Vary IFF). His extensive documentary filmography includes Hamsa, I Am (1999), The Musicians (1999), Crimson Sails (2001), Vierka, or The Mystery of Family B’s Disappearance (2005), Kha-chee-pae (2005), Citizen Havel (2008), and The Confessions of Kateryna K. (2008). In 2000 he created the feature-length documentary Battle for Life (co-dirs. Roman Vávra, Vít Janeček – KVIFF 2001). In 2012 the Karlovy Vary IFF presented his portrait of director Drahomíra Vihanová entitled Burning and in 2014 his documentary Olga portraying Olga Havlová.
Contacts
Hypermarket Film s.r.o.
Myslíkova 28, 110 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.hypermarketfilm.cz
Aerofilms
Milady Horákové 383/79, 170 00, Praha 7
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 224 947 566
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About the film
Color, DCP
Section: | Documentary Films - Out of Competition |
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Director: | Miroslav Janek |
Screenplay: | Miroslav Janek podle námětu / based on an original idea by Renata Kalenská |
Dir. of Photography: | Miroslav Janek |
Music: | Vratislav Brabenec, Joe Karafiát, The Plastic People of the Universe |
Editor: | Tonička Janková |
Producer: | Vit Klusák, Filip Remunda |
Production: | Hypermarket Film s.r.o. |
Coproduction: | Česká televize |
Contact: | Hypermarket Film s.r.o. |
Distributor: | Aerofilms |
Guests
Miroslav Janek
Filip Remunda
Film Director, Producer
Michael Míček
Film Crew
Martin Kořínek
Producer
Zuzana Pudilová
Distributor
Ivo Andrle
Distributor
Radim Habartík
Distributor
Zuzana Kameníková
Cinema Representative, Cinema Representative
Jan Noháč
Distributor
Radka Urbancová
Cinema Representative, Distributor, PR & Marketing
Jakub Němeček
Distributor, Other
Anna Lísalová
Distributor
Zuzana Raušová
Cinema Representative, Distributor, PR & Marketing