Gottland

synopsis

Polish journalist Mariusz Szczygieł describes the Czech Republic, the subject of his book Gottland, as a country of horror, sadness, and grotesque that not even Kafka could have dreamt up. Inspired by his stories, five Czech documentarians made a film that explores the boundary of documentary and reenactment. Petr Hátle reconstructs an archive interview with Otakar Vávra and Lída Baarová, Viera Čákanyová uses animation, Lukáš Kokeš creates an analogy between the camera’s movement and an assembly line. An original, critical view of modern Czech history.

DETAIL:
“When does the line stop? I don’t know. It can’t. Everybody wants to do better and better and to have more and more things, so he has to invest more into it. You can’t jump out anymore. It’s like an anthill.”

biography

Producer Tomáš Hrubý invited several leading young Czech documentarians to work on this film. In 2012, Lukáš Kokeš and Klára Tasovská’s The Fortress (2012) won in competition in Jihlava, Petr Hátle’s The Great Night (2013) won the next year. Rozálie Kohoutová is the director of the feature-length documentary Kytlice, Zimmer Frei (2012) about a small Sudeten town, and Slovak director Viera Čakányová’s films include Alda (2009) about a woman with Alzheimer’s and Piranha (2008), a portrait of a tabloid journalist.

more about film

director:	Rozálie Kohoutová, Petr Hátle, Viera Čákanyová, Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská
producer:	Tomáš Hrubý
script:	Petr Hátle, Lukáš Kokeš, Viera Čákanyová, Rozálie Kohoutová, Klára Tasovská
photography:	Lukáš Kokeš, Lukáš Milota, Prokop Souček
editing:	Šimon Špidla, Evženie Brabcová, Viera Čákanyová, Saša Gojdic, Šimon Hájek, Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská
music:	Patryk Cannon, Šimon Holý, Jakub Kudláč
sound:	Dominik Dolejší, Miloš Hanzély, Vítek Jíra, Vojtěch Knot, Lukáš Kosek, Adam Levý

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