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Scratch (Rysa) Shameless (Nestyda)
POLAND
In Michal Rosa’s tense political and psychological drama, the totalitarian
CZECH REPUBLIC
Following their collaborations on A Novel for Women and The Holiday
Director: Michal Rosa Polish state has finally collapsed, but the old terrors persist. The 40-year Director: Jan Hrebejk Makers, Czech filmmaker Jan Hrebejk (the SDFF 29 Krzysztof Kieslowski
Producers: Henryk Romanowski, marriage of Jan and Joanna (Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak and Krzysztof Producers: Rudolf Beirmann,
Award winner for Beauty in Trouble) reunites with Michal Viewegh
Dariusz Sidor
Stroinski), an academic couple in Kraków, is put in jeopardy when they
Tomas Hoffman
in Shameless, a comic romp based on Viewegh’s bestselling Tales of
Screenwriter: Michael Rosa discover among their anniversary gifts a videotape accusing Jan of being Screenwriters: Michal Viewegh, Marriage and Sex.
Cinematographer: Marcin Koszalka a former Polish secret policeman who wooed his wife all those years ago
Jan Hrebejk, Jirí Machácek
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Editor: Krzysztof Szpetmanski
with an ulterior motive – the opportunity to spy on her dissident father.
Cinematographer: Jan Malír
Oskar (Jirí Machácek) is a television weatherman who has fallen out of
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Cast: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak,
Editor: Vladimír Barák love with his nasally endowed wife Zuzana. Undergoing a midlife crisis,
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Krzysztof Stroinski, This scratch on the surface of their relationship soon festers. As Joanna’s Cast: Simona Babcakova,
he begins a series of affairs. Having begged out of the family vacation
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Ewa Telega, Miroslawa Marcheluk,
suspicions multiply in the midst of a gray winter chill, frendships are
Nina Diviskova, Karel Gott, Ady Hajdu,
at a mountain resort, he falsifies the weather forecast – convincing his
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Krzysztof Stroinski
ruined, silence descends on the couple’s gloomy house, and the specter
Pavel Landovsky, Pavel Liska
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wife and son to stay sequestered from the ostensible blizzard so he can
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2008 / color / 89 min.
of madness haunts their door.
2009 / color / 88 min.
bed the family nanny, an immature blonde. Fired for his ballsy behavior,
he finds work as a driver for drunk bargoers, scooting around the city
Like recent German Academy Award winner The Lives of Others, Rosa’s on his minibike in search of work and women. But as his conquests
film examines the grave wounds inflicted by a heartless regime’s surveil- continue, they prove to be less and less fulfilling. Take the much older
MiChaL roSa
lance apparatus on its people – wounds that can’t heal in the midst of
Michal Rosa graduated from
Jan hrEBEJK
singing sensation Nora, who enchants Oskar with the lilting voice that
Silesia University of Technology in
ongoing struggle between trust and doubt. A mournful piano score Jan Hrebejk, respected screenwriter accents much of the Shameless soundtrack, then leaves him when the
architecture and from the Faculty
by Stanislaw Radwan sets the tone of for the political-cum-personal
and film and stage director, studied
father of her children dies. Or the hooker who seduces Oskar in a bath-
of Radio and Television at Silesia tragedy.
at the Film and Television School
tub. And as for Zuzana – she has crafted a far better relationship with a
University in directing. Rosa currently
at the Academy of Performing Arts
teaches at his alma mater. In 2007 he
(FAMU) in Prague. Hrebejk’s feature
new lover, one who appreciates the size of her nose.
won the Audience Award at the New
film debut Big Beat, a retro comedy
York Polish Film Festival for What the
about the coming of rock and roll to While cameos from Czech media celebrities add to the film’s authenticity
Sun Has Seen (2005).
Czechoslovakia, won Czech Lions for
and humor, its setting in a nameless Eastern European city adds a touch
Best Director, Best Actor, Best Music,
of poignancy: against a nighttime background of historic architecture
and Best Film in 1993.
Filmography and twinkling lights, Oskar’s quest for sex as meaning pales.
Silence (2001)
Paint (1997)
Selected Filmography
Hot Thursday (1994)
Teddy Bear (2007)
Sponsored by:
Beauty in Trouble (2006)
Up and Down (2004)
Divided We Fall (2000)
Cozy Dens (1999)
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