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The Gardener's Year

Special Screenings 2024 / Zahradníkův rok / Czech Republic 2023

The Gardener's Year The Gardener's Year

Synopsis

A true story of injustice perpetrated on a peaceful gardener by a wealthy neighbor meets Karel Čapek’s eponymous literary work about a gardener’s hardships and successes over the course of a year. Director Jiří Havelka, one of the most complex artistic personalities of our time, has long proved that “alternative” and “audience-friendly” need not be mutually exclusive. His quietly moving tragicomic story about a remarkably stubborn struggle for the right to a dignified life is built on two great performances by the always outstanding Oldřich Kaiser and Dáša Vokatá.

Karel Och

About the film

104 min / Color, DCP
World premiere

Director Jiří Havelka / Screenplay Jiří Havelka / Dir. of Photography Ferdinand Mazurek / Music Tadeáš Věrčák / Sound Petr Kapeller / Editor Jakub Hejna / Art Director Jan "Pjena" Novotný / Producer Jíří Tuček / Production Donart production s.r.o. / Coproduction Česká televize / Cast Oldřich Kaiser, Dagmar Vokatá, Michal Isteník, Štěpán Kozub / Contact DONART Production

About the director

Jiří Havelka

Jiří Havelka (1980, Jihlava, Czechoslovakia). Selected filmography: The Owners (Vlastníci, 2019), Eyewitness (Očitý svědek, 2021), Emergency Situation (Mimořádná událost, 2022), The Gardener’s Year (Zahradníkův rok, 2024).

Contacts

DONART Production
Korunní 2569/108, 101 00, Praha 10
Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]

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Guests

Jiří Havelka
Film Director

Oldřich Kaiser
Actor

Dagmar Vokatá
Actress

Alena Mihulová
Actress

Petr Lněnička
Actor

Tomáš Jeřábek
Actor

Jiří Vyorálek
Actor

Jiří Tuček
Producer

Jakub Škrdlík
Distributor, Producer

Annette Kolková

Helena Uldrichová
TV Representative

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