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Snake Gas

Special Screenings 2023 / Hadí plyn / Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Romania 2023

Synopsis

This loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness follows Robert Klein (Stanislav Majer) as he sets out to find his brother, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Klein finds himself on a journey where nothing is familiar or certain, a journey during which he is forced to reassess his relationship to his culture, to himself, and to his brother, whom he thought he knew so well… David Jařab’s latest film is a highly original exploration of the conflict of cultures that we are permanently forced to reckon with, about the patriarchal superiority of the “white man,” and about the right to plunder natural resources that are slowly but surely running out.

Anna Kořínek

About the film

112 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director David Jařab / Screenplay David Jařab / Dir. of Photography Oleg Mutu / Music Jakub Kudláč / Sound Richard Müller / Editor Jan Daňhel / Art Director David Jařab / Producer Viktor Schwarcz / Production Cineart TV Prague / Coproduction Arina, Česká televize, The East Comp., Home Media Prod. / Cast Stanislav Majer, Václav Vašák, Mara Lukama, Martin Pechlát, Dalibor Buš / Contact Cineart TV Prague s.r.o. / Distributor CinemArt, a.s.

About the director

David Jařab (1971, Hranice na Moravě, Czech Republic). Selected filmography: Vaterland: A Hunting Logbook (2004), Head Hands Heart (2010), Vratislav Effenberger or Black Shark Hunting (2018, doc.), Snake Gas (2023).