Archive of films Certain Kind of Silence / Tiché doteky
Czech Republic / Netherlands / Latvia
2019, 96 min
Section:
East of the West - Competition
Year: 2019
Mia goes to live with a family as their au pair. As soon as she arrives, however, she discovers that they have strict household rules: breaking any of them will lead to her immediate dismissal. The young woman has to decide whether to preserve her integrity or conform to a lifestyle that is utterly alien to her.
Synopsis
Mia is hired as an au pair. She knows she’ll be looking after a 10-year-old boy, but that is all. Yet her very first meeting with the family suggests that she is expected to do rather more than this. She has to pay the price for a life of high financial and intellectual reward by following a set of strict rules whose infringement would result in instantaneous dismissal and a ticket back home. However, it would also mean abandoning a child she is trying to reach out to, and losing her self-respect. Michal Hogenauer’s feature film debut examines the strength of an individual’s resilience to manipulation and the extent to which people are willing to make sacrifices in order to preserve their self-esteem.
Anna Kořínek
About the director
Michal Hogenauer (b. 1984, Prague). Filmography: Children Watching Night Trains (2008, short), Tambylles (2012, medium-length), A Certain Kind of Silence (2019)
Contacts
Negativ
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Czech Republic
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About the film
Color, DCP
World premiere
Section: | East of the West - Competition |
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Director: | Michal Hogenauer |
Screenplay: | Michal Hogenauer, Jakub Felcman |
Dir. of Photography: | Gregg Telussa |
Music: | Filip Míšek |
Editor: | Michal Reich |
Art Director: | Laura Dišlere |
Producer: | Petr Oukropec |
Production: | Negativ, s.r.o. |
Coproduction: | Circe Films, Tasse Film, i/o post |
Cast: | Eliška Křenková, Jacob Jutte, Monic Hendrickx, Roeland Fernhout |
Sales: | Negativ |
www: | www.negativ.cz |
Guests
Petr Oukropec
Film Director, Producer
Eliška Křenková
Actress
Jacob Jutte
Actor
Michal Hogenauer
Film Director
Richard Müller
Film Crew, Sound Designer
Pavel Vácha
Film Crew, Production