Czech Films 2003-2004 2004 / Choking hazard / Czech Republic 2004
Eddie Cockrell, Variety: “Helmer Marek Dobeš keeps cheeky fun at the fore, with buckets of raspberry-hued gore fleshing out odd rhytmus of double-take comedy.”
The first Czech zombie-comedy takes place in the isolated motel Halali, surrounded by forests as though created for the organisation of various kinds of encounters and activities requiring full concentration. The participants of a weekend course intended for people seeking the meaning of existence are travelling to the empty motel, which out of season is staffed only by essential personnel. The timid Hanušová, the sex-obsessed Křenovcová, the diligent Lefnerová, her partner the submissive Nedobyl, the young nihilist Verner – all of them are here to learn more about life and themselves. The porn-star Měchura has blundered here by mistake, but he too has something to add to the theme...
The leader of this group of very different people is the philosopher Reiniš, blind but enlightened within, who is to teach them how to live. However, critical circumstances force them to learn rather how to survive. The surrounding forest is full of hungry zombies who launch an attack on the motel. And not all the participants have the good fortune or courage to escape their bloodthirsty assault…
81 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Marek Dobeš
/ Screenplay Štěpán Kopřiva
/ Dir. of Photography Martin Preiss
/ Music František Fuka, Daniel Krob
/ Editor Michal Hýka
/ Producer Marek Dobeš
/ Production Brutto Film, koprodukce / co-production: Narek Oganesjan
/ Cast Jaroslav Dušek, Jan Dolanský, Dáda Patrasová, Kamil Švejda, Eva Nadaždyová
/ Contact Brutto Film, Bontonfilm, a.s.
Marek Dobeš (b. 1971, Prague) made his debut in 1999 with the short horror comedy I Was a Teenage Intellectual, which was made under amateur conditions but distributed to cinemas where it won a number of awards (including the prize for direction, camera and editing at the festival Ein Fenster zum Osten in Berlin and awards at the festival in Ebensee in Austria and the Worldfest in Huston). An experienced publicist (he originally studied journalism), he and Choking Hazard screenwriter Štěpán Kopřiva specialize in B films. He has aslo published two collections of sci-fi, founded a publishing house for comics (Crew), and established himself as a TV script-writer (the script for two historical comedies, On Caesar’s Order (Na rozkaz císaře) and Musica viva, and the series “Room Upstairs” directed by Karel Smyczek). Eddie Cockrell, Variety: “Helmer Marek Dobeš keeps cheeky fun at the fore, with buckets of raspberry-hued gore fleshing out odd rhytmus of double-take comedy.”
Brutto Film
Národní 116/20, 11000, Praha
Czech Republic
Phone: +420602328082
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]
Marek Dobeš
Film Director / Producer
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