Special Screenings – Classics / Kopytem sem, kopytem tam / Czechoslovakia 1988
It’s the late 1980s. Three friends – Pepe, Milan and František – are making the most of Karlovy Vary’s nightlife. While their days are dampened by the tedious, at times, absurd workplace reality of late socialism, their nights are given over to decadence. Naturally, women are essential to their plans, and who says you can’t spend a night with your mate’s girlfriend as well? Except there’s a virus going around that causes a disease no-one dares mention, with currently no cure. AIDS. Věra Chytilová’s jagged, expressive directorial style is complemented by the poetic sensibilities of Sklep Theatre, whose founders appear in the lead roles. This sombre farce blends an image of a society jaded by empty regime slogans with a portrait of friendship which, in the face of threat, disintegrates into cold egoism.
Anna Kořínek
Film Stills © Státní fond audiovize, Source: Národní filmový archiv
134 min / Color, DCP
Director Věra Chytilová
/ Screenplay Věra Chytilová, Pavel Škapík
/ Dir. of Photography Jaroslav Brabec
/ Music Jiří Chlumecký, Jiří Veselý
/ Sound Miloslav Hůrka
/ Editor Ivana Kačírková
/ Art Director Zbyněk Hloch
/ Producer Jaroslav Bouček
/ Production Filmové studio Barrandov
/ Cast Tomáš Hanák, Milan Šteindler, David Vávra, Ivana Kuntová, Tereza Kučerová, Jiří Bartoška
/ Sales Národní filmový archiv
Věra Chytilová. Selected filmography: Another Way of Life (1963), Daisies (1966), We Eat the Fruit of the Trees of Paradise (1969), The Apple Game (1976), PanelStory, or How a Housing Development Is Born (1979), Calamity (1980), Faun's Delayed Afternoon (1983), Tainted Horseplay (1988), The Inheritance or Fuck Off, Boys, Guten Tag (1992).
Národní filmový archiv
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Tomáš Hanák
Actor
Milan Šteindler
Actor
David Vávra
Actor
Ivana Kleňhová
Actress
Jaroslav Bouček
Producer
Jaroslav Brabec
Director of Photography
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