Archive of films Domestique / Domestik
Czech Republic / Slovak Republic
2018, 116 min
Section:
Official Selection - Competition
Year: 2018
Top cyclist Roman has had enough of serving as a domestique, a bicycle racer who sacrifices for the team. And since strenuous training and a strict regimen don’t lead to the type of performance he longs for, he sets up an oxygen tent at home. His obsession with having a sports career, however, renders him oblivious to his wife Šarlota’s desire to have a baby. A claustrophobic drama on the utter breakdown of a marriage almost suffocated by a machine that oxygenates the blood.
Synopsis
Roman is a domestique, a top road cyclist who takes direction from the pack leader during a race. But he’s had it up to here with thanklessly fighting for the team and he wants to go after his own individual success. Unfortunately, strenuous training and a strict regimen don’t lead to the type of performance he covets. So Roman sets up an oxygen tent in the master bedroom despite the objections of his wife Šarlota, who simply longs to have a baby. After shaking things up with the Czech internet miniseries The Term, Adam Sedlák has come out with an uncompromisingly minimalist feature debut. A claustrophobic drama about the slowly creeping yet utter breakdown of a marriage almost suffocated by a machine that oxygenates the blood.
Martin Horyna
About the director

Adam Sedlák (b. 1989, Prague). Selected filmography: Mgr. Radovan Kaluža (2011, doc.), Tereza Dratvová, Born 1989 (2012, short), L. H. (2013, short), The Term (2016, miniseries)
Contacts
CinemArt, a.s.
Národní 60/28, 111 21, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 224 949 110
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.cinemart.cz
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France
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About the film
Color, DCP
World premiere
Section: | Official Selection - Competition |
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Director: | Adam Sedlák |
Screenplay: | Adam Sedlák |
Dir. of Photography: | Dušan Husár |
Music: | Vložte kočku |
Editor: | Šimon Hájek |
Art Director: | Ondřej Lipenský |
Producer: | Jakub Jíra |
Production: | Shore Points |
Coproduction: | Sentimentalfilm, Česká televize, UPP, Soundsquare, Elekta Film |
Cast: | Tereza Hofová, Jiří Konvalinka, Miroslav Hanuš, Tomáš Bambušek |
Sales: | Stray Dogs |
Distributor: | CinemArt, a.s. |
Guests

Jakub Jíra
Producer

Tereza Hofová
Actress

Tereza Kopecká
Costume Designer

Jiří Konvalinka
Actor

Ondřej Lipenský
Production Designer

Jakub Jurásek
Sound Designer

Dušan Husár
Director of Photography

Šimon Hájek
Editor

Jan Šulcek

Adam Sedlák
Film Director

Tomáš Baldýnský
Producer, TV Representative, Tutor / Trainer

Barbora Potužníková
Make Up Artist

Ivan Ostrochovský
Film Director, Producer

Miroslav Hanuš
Actor