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Duchoň

Special Screenings / Duchoň / Slovak Republic, Czech Republic 2025

Screenings

Monday 7/7 / 14:00

Grand Hall

414

Tuesday 8/7 / 20:00

Pupp

5P7

Thursday 10/7 / 22:00

Congress Hall

739

Saturday 12/7 / 10:00

Karlovy Vary Theatre

9D1

Synopsis

Czardas of Two Hearts, In the Slovak Valleys and I Love You are just some of the hits which turned pop singer Karol Duchoň into a household name more than four decades ago. At a time when the young generation is rediscovering the legacy of the “Czechoslovak Tom Jones” outside the context of his heyday, Peter Bebjak (The Line, Nineties) presents a stirring portrait proving that the concepts auteur cinema and big audience can coexist in a single, highly appealing endeavour. The film version of Duchoň’s dramatic fate relies on the stage play by Jiří Havelka and Róbert Mankovecký The Earth Remembers (Zem pamätá), and preserves the way in which it looks back at the Normalisation era, without rash judgement, yet with subtle irony.

Karel Och

About the film

99 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Peter Bebjak / Screenplay Jiří Havelka, Róbert Mankovecký / Dir. of Photography Martin Žiaran / Music Juraj Dobrakov / Sound Martin Jílek / Editor Marek Kráľovský / Art Director Juraj Kuchárek / Producer Rasťo Šesták, Peter Bebjak / Production DNA Production / Coproduction DNA Production / Cast Vladislav Plevčík, Anna Jakab Rakovská, Gregor Hološka, Adrian Jastraban, Agáta Spišáková / Contact DNA Production, Simona Andělová / Distributor Continental Film Ltd.
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About the director

Peter Bebjak (1970, Partizánske, Czechoslovakia). Selected filmography: The Line (Čiara, 2017), The Rift (Trhlina, 2019), The Auschwitz Report (Správa, 2020), Shadowplay (Stínohra, 2022), Whirlwind (Smršť, 2024), Duchoň (2025).