Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2003 / Městečko / Czech Republic 2003
Subversive social comedy about a Czech village´s failure to adapt to
capitalism after the 1989 Velvet Revolution.
A sour little Czech village fails miserably but nobly at capitalism in the subversive social comedy Small Town. Helming debut from popular thesp Jan Kraus (Seducer) is a cockeyed valentine to the kind of resolute pluckiness in the face of adversity that is a hallmark of Czech culture and cinema. After 1989´s Velvet Revolution, the winds of change blow fast and free in the small town of Mestecko (which means "small town"). Everyone, it seems, has a get-rich-quick scheme that just can´t fail. Yet one by one, their dreams are shattered: it seems the free market economy isn´t as malleable as party functionaries. Kraus modelled many of the characters on people he knows, and the largely no-name cast is assembled from regional theater thesps.
Eddie Cockrell
99 min / Color, 35 mm
International premiere
Director Jan Kraus
/ Screenplay Jan Kraus
/ Dir. of Photography Diviš Marek
/ Music David Kraus
/ Editor Jiří Brožek
/ Producer Jaroslav Kučera, Jan Štern
/ Production Česká televize / Czech Television, koprodukce / co-production: S Pro Alfa Film
/ Cast Otmar Bracuzský, Rostislav Novák, Martin Učík, Norbert Lichý, Petr Křiváček, Vlastimil Brabec
/ Contact Česká televize, Czech Television - Telexport, Bontonfilm, a.s., S Pro Alfa CZ
Česká televize
Kavčí hory, 140 70, Praha 4
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 261 131 111
E-mail: [email protected]
Czech Television - Telexport
Kavčí hory, 140 70, Praha 4
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 261 137 047
E-mail: [email protected]
Bontonfilm, a.s.
Na Poříčí 1047/26, 110 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 257 415 111
E-mail: [email protected]
S Pro Alfa CZ
Truhlářská 15, 110 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 221 776 221
Fax: +420 221 776 222
E-mail: [email protected]
Jana Černik
Jitka Procházková
Festival Organizer, TV Representative
Jan Kraus
Actor / Film Director, Actor / Film Director
Aleš Danielis
Distributor
František Janda
Jaroslav Kučera
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