Czech Films 2017–2018 2018 / Scalamare / Czech Republic, Netherlands 2017
The memorial to the victims of the First World War in Ancona, Italy, whose stairs have a magnificent view of waves breaking on the Adriatic Sea. A couple returning to the place they honeymooned 40 years earlier. A visually elegant miniature directed by world-renowned choreographer Jiří Kylián, where words are unnecessary because dance says it all.
The memorial to the victims of the First World War in Ancona, Italy, whose stairs have a magnificent view of waves breaking on the Adriatic Sea. A couple returning to the place where they honeymooned 40 years earlier. Choreographer Jiří Kylián’s extraordinary imagination describes everything that accumulates in a relationship over so many years: laughter and tears, humor and sarcasm, all overlain with a deep love. Everything is so perfectly expressed through dance and other gestures that words are no longer necessary. This short film is a visually elegant miniature about recapping the past and spontaneously experiencing the present, but also a hopeful look at the future, however short it might be.
Anna Kořínek
11 min / Color, Black & White, DCP
Director Jiří Kylián
/ Dir. of Photography Jan Malíř
/ Music Han Otten, Annunzio Mantovani
/ Editor Filip Malásek
/ Art Director Jiří Kylián, Joke Visser, Sara Meerman
/ Production Kylian Productions
/ Cast Sabine Kupferberg, Peter Jolesch
/ Contact Kylian Productions BV
Jiří Kylián (b. 1947, Prague). Selected filmography: Schwarzfahrer (2014, short), Scalamare (2017, short)
Kylian Productions BV
Acaciastraat 14, 2565 KB, Haag
Netherlands
Jiří Kylián
Film Director
Jan Malíř
Director of Photography
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