Vašek learns that he is dying, so he steals a painting and goes to Rome to sell it – he needs money for a healer. Sitting on a train with a fake mustache on his face, he has no idea that he has, in fact, been sent on a spiritual quest of his life by a beautiful girl. His pursuers look as if they were transported from a 1970’s movie, yet his attention is constantly drawn to the other passengers, who pull him into their own stories with no mercy. Vašek slowly gets lost in a colorful chaos of other people’s destinies, opinions and his own dreams. In the end, his train will take some of them to hell, others to enlightenment or a bizarre epiphany. The film takes a humorous view on all the basic philosophical questions we have heard so many times but that we have yet to find the answers to.
PREMIERE:
50TH KARLOVY VARY IFF (2015)
100 MIN / 2015
SPIRITUAL COMEDY
IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH:
Easybusyproductions (Poland)
The Czech Television
Film and Tv School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Magic-Lab
SUPPORTED BY:
Czech Film Fund
Polish Film Institute
DIRECTOR:
Tomasz Mielnik
SCREENPLAY:
Tomasz Mielnik
Vít Poláček
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jan Šuster
EDITOR:
Šimon Hájek
SOUND DESIGNER:
Michaela Petríková
David Titěra
PRODUCERS:
Mikuláš Novotný
Radim Procházka
Weronika Czołnowska
Michal Křeček
CAST:
Václav Hrzina
Berenika Kohoutová
Nina Divíšková
Jan Englert
Miroslav Donutil
Johana Švarcová
Juraj Herz
Jiří Najvert
Zdeněk Hudeček
Igor Chmela
Petr Slavík
Igor Bareš
Jan Turner
Ernesto Čekan
Tomáš Hanák
Ivana Uhlířová
Marian Moštík
Jiří Petržilka
Ivan Vojnár
Jan Hraběta
Orlan Mongush
Vladimír T. Gottwald
Zbigniew Zamachowski And Others
ORIGINAL TRAILER
ORIGINAL POSTER
Vašek learns that he is dying, so he steals a painting and goes to Rome to sell it – he needs money for a healer. Sitting on a train with a fake mustache on his face, he has no idea that he has, in fact, been sent on a spiritual quest of his life by a beautiful girl. His pursuers look as if they were transported from a 1970’s movie, yet his attention is constantly drawn to the other passengers, who pull him into their own stories with no mercy. Vašek slowly gets lost in a colorful chaos of other people’s destinies, opinions and his own dreams. In the end, his train will take some of them to hell, others to enlightenment or a bizarre epiphany. The film takes a humorous view on all the basic philosophical questions we have heard so many times but that we have yet to find the answers to.
PREMIERE:
50TH KARLOVY VARY IFF (2015)
100 MIN / 2015
SPIRITUAL COMEDY
IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH:
Easybusyproductions (Poland)
The Czech Television
Film and Tv School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Magic-Lab
SUPPORTED BY:
Czech Film Fund
Polish Film Institute
DIRECTOR:
Tomasz Mielnik
SCREENPLAY:
Tomasz Mielnik
Vít Poláček
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jan Šuster
EDITOR:
Šimon Hájek
SOUND DESIGNER:
Michaela Petríková
David Titěra
PRODUCERS:
Mikuláš Novotný
Radim Procházka
Weronika Czołnowska
Michal Křeček
CAST:
Václav Hrzina
Berenika Kohoutová
Nina Divíšková
Jan Englert
Miroslav Donutil
Johana Švarcová
Juraj Herz
Jiří Najvert
Zdeněk Hudeček
Igor Chmela
Petr Slavík
Igor Bareš
Jan Turner
Ernesto Čekan
Tomáš Hanák
Ivana Uhlířová
Marian Moštík
Jiří Petržilka
Ivan Vojnár
Jan Hraběta
Orlan Mongush
Vladimír T. Gottwald
Zbigniew Zamachowski And Others
ORIGINAL TRAILER
ORIGINAL POSTER