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A Sensitive Person

Crystal Globe Competition 2023 / Citlivý člověk / Czech Republic, Slovak Republic 2023

Synopsis

“Growing old isn’t for sissies,” states one of the characters from Jáchym Topol’s acclaimed novel, which, according to one reviewer, is “a comical and brutal report from the flipside of life” and now appears loosely adapted into a film by Tomáš Klein, one of the most talented Czech directors. This darkly grotesque drama sets off down more than one path. There’s the real path – at times grim, at times crazy – via which Dad Mour, an itinerant actor, his wife Mum and their two sons try to return home; and then there’s the imaginary one – more meandering and dusty – along which stirring intellectual youthfulness (or immaturity, as pessimists would have it) feuds with circumstances that force the protagonist to acquire wisdom. A restless and zesty cinematic feerie about love, fear of loneliness, and sons gazing intently at their father.

Karel Och

About the film

120 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Tomáš Klein / Screenplay Tomáš Klein, Lucie Vaňková, Kateřina Traburová podle knihy / based on the novel by Jáchym Topol / Dir. of Photography Dušan Husár / Music Pjoni / Sound Dominik Dolejší / Editor Vadim Usoltsev / Art Director Stella Šonková / Producer Tomáš Michálek, Ivan Ostrochovský / Production MasterFilm, Punkchart Films / Coproduction Česká televize / Cast David Prachař, Jaroslav Cuhra, Tatiana Dyková, Jiří Lábus, Milan Mikulčík, Jiří Schmitzer, Vladimír Javorský, Ján Jackuliak, Alexandra Borbély / Contact MasterFilm / Distributor CinemArt, a.s.

About the director

Tomáš Klein (1987, Czech Republic). Selected filmography: Obsession (2015, short doc.), The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street (co-director, 2016), A Sensitive Person (2023).