Czech Films 2008-2009 2009 / Nestyda / Czech Republic 2008
Jan Hřebejk based his "unromantic comedy” on the bestselling book by Michal Viewegh, the most successful Czech writer around today. Its hero is Oskar, a man in the prime of life who, experiencing a middle-age crisis, decides rather late that it’s time to start pursuing "true love”. After the popular weatherman discovers that his wife’s nose is too big, the clouds start to gather on his thus far serene horizon.
Accomplished director Jan Hřebejk, popular actor Jiří Macháček and best-selling author Michal Viewegh teamed up to create a story about the fickle Oskar, who certainly has reason to see himself as a successful man in the prime of life. He has his roles perfectly balanced: beloved husband, attentive father and favourite television weatherman. One Saturday morning, however, Oskar wakes up to the realisation that his wife’s nose is just too big. How could he have lived with her for so long? He decides to take up with a young lover and eventually leaves his family for her. His awareness that he must find true love at all costs drives him from one extreme to the next, and also into the arms of the aging singer Nora. The clouds begin to gather above the man who was always ready with a smile for his TV audience as he forecast the worst possible weather... Shameless was inspired by the book Short Stories about Marriage and Sex by Michal Viewegh who, with a degree of hyperbole, describes the film as an "unromantic comedy”.
88 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Jan Hřebejk
/ Screenplay Michal Viewegh
/ Dir. of Photography Jan Malíř
/ Editor Vladimír Barák
/ Producer Rudolf Biermann, Tomáš Hoffman
/ Production In Film Praha
/ Cast Jiří Macháček, Emília Vášáryová, Pavel Liška, Simona Babčáková, Nina Divíšková, Pavel Landovský, Kryštof Mucha
/ Contact In Film Praha s.r.o., Menemsha Films, Inc. , Falcon a.s.
/ Distributor Falcon a.s.
www: www.nestyda.cz
Jan Hřebejk (b. 1967, Prague) is commercially one of the Czech Republic’s most successful directors of the middle generation. He studied dramaturgy and screenwriting at Prague’s FAMU. He gave his debut with the 1950s retro-musical Big Beat (1993 - Czech Lion award for Best Direction and Best Czech Film). This was followed by the family tragi-comedy Cosy Dens (1999 – FIPRESCI Award and a Special Mention at the Karlovy Vary IFF), the award-winning bitter-sweet tale set during the Nazi occupation Divided We Fall (2000 – Czech Lion for direction, Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film), the "normalisation” tragi-comedy Pupendo (2003), the contemporary mournful comedy Up and Down (2004 – Czech Lion for direction and Best Film), the love story Beauty in Trouble (2006 – three Czech Lions, Special Jury Prize at the KVIFF), the tragi-comedy Teddy Bear (2007) and the comedy I’m All Good (2008).
In Film Praha s.r.o.
Žitná 23, 110 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 222 515 357
Fax: +420 222 515 613
E-mail: [email protected]
Menemsha Films, Inc.
213 Rose Avenue, 2nd floor, CA 902 91, Venice
United States of America
Phone: +1 310 452 1775
Fax: +1 310 452 3740
E-mail: [email protected]
Falcon a.s.
Radlická 3185/1c, 150 00, Praha 5
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 224 422 222
E-mail: [email protected]
Rudolf Biermann
Producer
Neil Friedman
Buyer
Jan Hřebejk
Film Director
Tomáš Hoffman
Producer
Jan Bradáč
Cinema Representative, Distributor, Producer
Svatava Peschková
Distributor
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