Tribute to Jiří Bartoška / Teorie tygra / Czech Republic, Slovak Republic 2016
Perhaps they were once tigers, creatures that roamed free and allowed no-one to dictate the terms. Yet now they are docile rabbits wracking their startled brains to figure out just how they got so tame. This is the way things seem for Jan, a vet who believes all his life decisions are being made by his enterprising wife Olga. With a view to regaining the wilder aspects of his past, the best he can come up with is to feign illness and get himself committed to a psychiatric facility, thus extricating himself from his wife’s influence. Do men really have it that bad? Is it so difficult to work things out with women? Are real men now on the verge of extinction? And can you turn your life around at this late stage? This tragicomedy examining human relationships and gender roles provided a great opportunity for actor Jiří Bartoška.
Jan Škoda
108 min / Color, DCP
Director Radek Bajgar
/ Screenplay Radek Bajgar, Mirka Zlatníková
/ Dir. of Photography Vladimír Holomek, Petr Koblovský
/ Music Jan P. Muchow
/ Editor Jan Mattlach
/ Art Director Nora Sopková
/ Producer Petr Erben
/ Production Logline Production
/ Coproduction Česká televize, RTVS, RWE
/ Cast Jiří Bartoška, Eliška Balzerová, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Jiří Havelka, Pavla Beretová, Jakub Kohák, Iva Janžurová, Lucia Siposová, Arnošt Goldflam
/ Sales Picture Tree International
/ Distributor CinemArt, a.s.
Radek Bajgar (1962, Kroměříž, Czechoslovakia). Selected fimography: Villa Faber (2011, TV film), The Invisible (Neviditelní, 2014, TV series), Tiger Theory (Teorie tygra, 2016), The Lady Terrorist (Teroristka, 2019), The Art of Passion (Kurz manželské touhy, 2021).
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