Archive of films Ice Mother / Bába z ledu

Czech Republic / Slovak Republic / France
2017, 106 min

Section: Czech Films 2016–2017
Year: 2017

Is there an age limit to changing your life? And once you decide to go ahead with it, will your nearest and dearest try to dissuade you? In Bohdan Sláma’s new tragicomedy a sixty-year-old widow finally manages to shake off the influence of her selfish sons in order to begin a new life with a hardy nonconformist. But any kind of change is going to cost something.


Synopsis

Is it possible to break out of one’s routine and head in a new direction later on in life? Sixty-year-old Hana is unexpectedly given the impulse to do just that when she meets contemporary Broňa, who encourages her to take up physical conditioning. This puts the wind up Hana’s grown-up sons, who have been brazenly abusing her generosity. The prospect of a new romance with a hardy nonconformist, who arrives at a family lunch with a hen friend called Adele, finally goads Hana into changing the established order… In his new tragicomedy director Bohdan Sláma abandons the socially marginalised protagonists from previous films such as Something Like Happiness and Four Suns, he nevertheless continues to examine familiar themes – broken family relationships, the quest for love and happiness, and the characters’ ability to transform their lives. The director likewise seeks to create parallel emotional bonds as the family structures change during the course of the film. Broňa, for example, becomes a father figure to Hana’s introverted grandson Ivánek, here accurately portrayed by young newcomer Daniel Vízek. On the occasion of its premiere screening at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York the film was awarded Best Screenplay.

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About the director

Bohdan Sláma

Bohdan Sláma (b. 1967, Opava, Czechoslovakia) studied at the Czech Technical University (ČVUT) and completed his studies in feature film direction at Prague’s FAMU in 1997 with his graduate film White Acacias (1996). His feature debut The Wild Bees (2001) drew on the poetic style of the 1960s Czechoslovak New Wave and won numerous awards at international film festivals (e.g. Tiger Award at Rotterdam and SKYY prize at San Francisco). Representing the Czech Republic, the film competed for an Oscar nomination and the European Film Award. The similarly atmospheric film Something Like Happiness (2005) took away seven Czech Lions and Best Film at San Sebastián. Further accolades followed for Country Teacher (2008), which won two Czech Lions, and Four Suns (2012), which competed at Sundance. Sláma has also shot several episodes of the series “Blaník Office.” He heads the department of film direction at FAMU.

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About the film

Color, DCP

Section: Czech Films 2016–2017
   
Director: Bohdan Sláma
Screenplay: Bohdan Sláma
Dir. of Photography: Diviš Marek
Music: Mardi, Petr Spálený
Editor: Jan Daňhel
Art Director: Jan Vlasák
Producer: Pavel Strnad, Petr Oukropec
Production: Negativ s.r.o.
Coproduction: Artileria, Why Not Productions, Česká televize, Barrandov studio, Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska
Cast: Zuzana Kronerová, Pavel Nový, Daniel Vízek, Václav Neužil, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Marek Daniel, Petra Špalková
Sales: The Match Factory
Distributor: Falcon a.s.
   
www: https://negativ.cz/films/baba-z-ledu/

Guests

Bohdan Sláma

Film Director

Zuzana Kronerová

Actress


Václav Neužil

Actor

Pavel Nový

Actor


Petra Špalková

Actress

Alena Mihulová

Actress


Daniel Vadocký

Distributor, Sales Agent

Pavel Strnad

Producer


Jan Vlasák

Film Crew

Jaroslav Sedláček

Producer


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