Juráček Is My Destiny

synopsis

Daňa Horáková, the wife of director Pavel Juráček, has written a harrowing book about her cohabitation with the director, one of the representatives of the new film wave of the 1960s. Juráček, the cursed poet of the screen, screenwriter and director, author of the award-winning films A Character to Prop and The Case for a Budding Executioner, and author of two voluminous volumes of his diaries. The idea for a film about two strange personalities came about after reading Dani Horáková's book about life with Pavel Juráček. The book is a very refined confession, a desperate life inventory, an indictment of the normalization regime in Czechoslovakia, which took away people's hopes of continuing their professions and sometimes their very existence. It is "An anatomy of a relationship, of a time, of creation, of love and hate", wrote Olga Sommerová, the author of the theme and director of the film, in the introduction.

biography

Olga Sommerová (1949) studied documentary filmmaking at FAMU, where she became a lecturer and later head of the documentary department in the 1990s. She began to cooperate with the Film School in Písek, where she taught documentary seminars. She is the author of almost a hundred documentary films, for which she has been awarded both at home and abroad. Her films are often characterized by social themes and explorations of interpersonal relationships.

more about film

director:	Olga Sommerová
producer:	Alena Müllerová
script:	Olga Sommerová
photography:	Olga Malířová Špátová, Jakub Sommer
editing:	Blanka Kulová
sound:	Petr Provazník, Michal Kinšt, Martin Bojo

contact

Alena Müllerová / Česká televize
Alena.Mullerova@ceskatelevize.cz