Crystal Globe Competition / Prameň / Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Hungary 2026
The film is set in the mid-1980s, when the state used its laws to continually influence the most intimate facets of its citizens’ lives. Ingrid (Aňa Geislerová) is an ambitious doctor, whose mission is to bring children into the world, to terminate unwanted pregnancies, and to participate in the sterilisation of Romany women. The melancholy woman has greater misgivings about her private situation than she does about her professional life, that is, until she is caught “off guard” by a new friendship with a charismatic Romany orderly. Spontaneous Agáta presents to Ingrid the human contours of a national minority reduced by the communists to a demographic problem. Ostrochovský’s beguiling drama returns to a hitherto unresolved issue of Czechoslovak history, where the option of having children was determined by the state.
Karel Och
88 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Ivan Ostrochovský
/ Screenplay Marek Leščák, Ivan Ostrochovský
/ Dir. of Photography Juraj Chlpík
/ Music Michal Novinski
/ Sound Dušan Kozák, Martin Jílek
/ Editor Martin Malo, Josef Krajbich
/ Art Director Csaba Lódi
/ Producer Ivan Ostrochovský, Albert Malinovský, Katarína Tomková, Pavel Strnad, Petr Oukropec
/ Production Punkchart films, Negativ
/ Coproduction Proton Cinema, Slovenská televízia a rozhlas, Česká televize
/ Cast Anna Geislerová, Simona Boledovičová, Eva Mores, Vlad Ivanov, Éva Bandor, Attila Mokos
/ Contact Punkchart films
/ Distributor Aerofilms
Ivan Ostrochovský. Selected filmography: Velvet Terrorists (Zamatoví teroristi, 2013, doc., co-dir.), Goat (Koza, 2015), Servants (Služobníci, 2020), Photophobia (Svetloplachosť, 2023, doc.), Only Beautiful Things to Look At (Prameň, 2026).
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