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Trash on Mars

Official Selection - Out of Competition 2018 / Mars / Czech Republic 2018

The budget for the program to colonize Mars was so drastically cut back that settlements never appeared on the faraway planet. Now the only reminder of the ambitious plan is an abandoned base inhabited by a very lonely robot. The silence and tranquility of the red planet is eventually disturbed, however, by a privately-funded Czech crew, whose members have taken on the mission for very different reasons…

Synopsis

Flights to Mars went out of fashion years ago. Now the only reminder of these ambitious trips is an abandoned base inhabited by a very lonely robot. The silence and tranquility of the red planet is eventually disturbed, however, by a privately-funded Czech crew, whose members have taken on the mission for very different reasons. The trip’s patron, for example, is trying to fulfill a promise to his fiancée by marrying her right on the Martian surface… A romance, moments of absurd comedy, and an existential take on colonizing outer space – all this is the unique Czech motion picture Trash on Mars, set inside an authentic simulated Mars habitat.

Anna Kořínek

About the film

84 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Benjamin Tuček / Screenplay Benjamin Tuček, Tereza Nvotová / Dir. of Photography David Čálek, Nikolas Tušl / Music Ondřej Ježek, Tomáš Procházka, Petr Marek, Prokop Holoubek / Editor Evženie Brabcová, Pavel Hrdlička / Producer Benjamin Tuček, Zdeněk Janáček / Production Nyasa Films Production / Coproduction Soundsquare, UPP Prague, Karel Janeček, Martin Kořínek, Jiří Havelka, Vosto5, Ondřej Doule / Cast Petra Nesvačilová, Halka Je. Třešňáková, Tereza Nvotová, Tomáš Jeřábek, Jiří Havelka, Petr Prokop, Ondřej Doule / Contact Nyasa Films Production
www: www.trashonmars.com

About the director

Benjamin Tuček (b. 1972, Brno, Czechoslovakia). Filmography: Girlie (2002), Tantra (2010, doc.), The Plan (2014, doc.), Trash on Mars (2018)