Archive of films Sensitive Person / Citlivý člověk

Czech Republic / Slovak Republic
2023, 120 min

Section: Crystal Globe Competition
Year: 2023

Synopsis

“Growing old isn’t for sissies,” states one of the characters from Jáchym Topol’s acclaimed novel, which, according to one reviewer, is “a comical and brutal report from the flipside of life” and now appears loosely adapted into a film by Tomáš Klein, one of the most talented Czech directors. This darkly grotesque drama sets off down more than one path. There’s the real path – at times grim, at times crazy – via which Dad Mour, an itinerant actor, his wife Mum and their two sons try to return home; and then there’s the imaginary one – more meandering and dusty – along which stirring intellectual youthfulness (or immaturity, as pessimists would have it) feuds with circumstances that force the protagonist to acquire wisdom. A restless and zesty cinematic feerie about love, fear of loneliness, and sons gazing intently at their father.

Karel Och

About the director

Tomáš Klein (1987, Czech Republic). Selected filmography: Obsession (2015, short doc.), The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (co-director, 2016), A Sensitive Person (2023).

Contacts

MasterFilm
Šumavská 13, 120 00, Prague 2
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 602 630 466
E-mail: [email protected]

CinemArt, a.s.
Národní 60/28, 111 21, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 224 949 110
E-mail: [email protected]

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About the film

Color, DCP
World premiere

Section:	Crystal Globe Competition

Director:	Tomáš Klein
Screenplay:	Tomáš Klein, Lucie Vaňková, Kateřina Traburová podle knihy / based on the novel by Jáchym Topol
Dir. of Photography:	Dušan Husár
Music:	Pjoni
Sound:	Dominik Dolejší
Editor:	Vadim Usoltsev
Art Director:	Stella Šonková
Producer:	Tomáš Michálek, Ivan Ostrochovský
Production:	MasterFilm, Punkchart Films
Coproduction:	Česká televize
Cast:	David Prachař, Jaroslav Cuhra, Tatiana Dyková, Jiří Lábus, Milan Mikulčík, Jiří Schmitzer, Vladimír Javorský, Ján Jackuliak, Alexandra Borbély
Contact:	MasterFilm
Distributor:	CinemArt, a.s.