Czech Films 2016–2017 2017 / 3. poločas / Czech Republic 2016
Thirty-year-old Mára does as much for his family as he possibly can. During the day he labours in a factory, and then afterwards goes off to continue working on the family home. However, the lives of Mára and his family are continually invaded by his irresponsible brother-in-law, Pája, a football hooligan. But then Mára begins to develop a perilous liking for the latter’s wild, carefree world…
Mára, 30, finishes work and then tackles other jobs that need his attention. He works at a factory during the day and afterwards goes off to build a house for the family. He gets help from his partner Léňa, with whom he has two kids. Their lives, however, are continually invaded by Léňa’s irresponsible brother Pája, one of the local football hooligans. Mára is always getting Pája out of trouble, but then his brother-in-law’s wild, carefree world starts to grow on him. In Jiří Volek’s drama the hooligans’ weekend-long bender will determine the outcome of the unexpected new developments in Mára’s life…
Jan Škoda
27 min / Color, DCP
Director Jiří Volek
/ Screenplay Jiří Volek
/ Dir. of Photography Jan Šuster
/ Music Michal Pajdiak
/ Editor Matěj Šámal
/ Art Director Jan Pfeiffer
/ Producer Tomáš Smrček, Oldřich Havelka, Jiří Volek
/ Production PUNCH Production
/ Coproduction FAMU, Česká televize
/ Cast Václav Neužil, Robin Pařík, Gabriela Míčová, Jan Lepšík, Maria Pavlova
/ Contact PUNCH Production
Jiří Volek (b. 1983, Kolín, Czechoslovakia) first studied architecture and graphic design, and later film direction at FAMU under Věra Chytilová. In 2010 he focused on increasing aggression among teenagers in Bastards. His film The End won Czech Television’s Accelerator competition, which selects the most ambitious Czech college scripts for future coproductions.
PUNCH Production
Hennerova 7, 15000, Praha 5
Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]
Tomáš Smrček
Producer
Oldřich Havelka
Producer
Zuzana Mazačová
Jan Šuster
Director of Photography
Jaroslav Sedláček
Producer
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