Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2006 / Shut Up and Shoot Me / Czech Republic, United Kingdom 2005
A jet-black comedy about a grief-stricken British widower who wants to die and an Eastern European everyman who can’t quite accommodate him, Shut Up and Shoot Me is proof that Euro-made, English-lingo genre pics can work. Script from debuting helmer Steen Agro comments shrewdly on the determinedly practical Czech character.
A jet-black comedy about a grief-stricken British widower who wants to die and an Eastern European everyman who can’t quite accommodate him, Shut Up and Shoot Me is proof that Euro-made, English-lingo genre pics can work. On vacation in Prague with his pretty wife Maggie, tubby British fussbudget Colin Frampton is devastated when, during a stroll around town, Maggie is crushed, Monty Python-like, by a statue. The driver assigned by Colin’s hotel to take him to the morgue is Pavel Zeman, a seething bundle of resentment hen-pecked by shopaholic wife Liba into working odd jobs. With no one to help him and nowhere to turn, the timid Brit begs the cash-strapped Czech to kill him, offering a large sum of money. Script from debuting helmer Steen Agro comments shrewdly on the determinedly practical Czech character via the plot’s bleaker aspects. Explaining why Liba is in the car with them, Zeman tells Colin “first we will take her to the beauty shop, then we will kill you.”
90 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Steen Agro
/ Screenplay Steen Agro
/ Dir. of Photography Howard J. Smith
/ Music Frank Gough
/ Editor Michal Lánský
/ Producer Paul Sherwood, David Rauch, Jeffrey Brown
/ Production Storitel Limited
/ Cast Karel Roden, Andy Nyman, Anna Geislerová
/ Contact Hollywood Classic Entertainment, Moviehouse Entertainment
/ Distributor Hollywood Classic Entertainment
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Psohlavců 8, 147 00, Praha 4
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E-mail: [email protected]
Moviehouse Entertainment
11 Denmark Street, WC2H 8LS, London
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Phone: +44 207 836 5536
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Jefe Brown
Producer
Steen Agro
Film Director, Other, Producer
Petr Plewka
Distributor
Marta Vaněčková
Distributor
David Rauch
Producer
Monika Šplichalová
Producer
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