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Guard no. 47 (Hlidac c.47) Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
CZECH REPUBLIC
A richly detailed period piece from the Czech Republic, Guard No. 47
USA
This unusual hybrid of indie drama and musical stands a postmodern
Director: Filip Renc is the tragic tale of one Josef Dousa (Karel Roden), a war-weary army Director: Damien Chazelle homage to the great, song-and-dance-filled silver screen romances
Producer: Jaroslav Kucera vet who in 1920 settles in a remote mountain village and takes a job Executive Producer: W.A.W. Parker of a bygone era. Filmmaker Damien Chazelle uses a handheld,
Screenwriters: Eduard Verner, Filip Renc,
as a railroad crossing guard. He wants only a placid life, but neither
Producers: Jasmine McGlade,
improvisational approach to integrate jazz and show tunes into black-
Zdenek Zelenka the past nor the present will let him be: Josef is haunted by memories Mihai Dinulescu and-white cinema verité, creating an absorbing love story that is by
Cinematographer: Karel Fairaisl of brutal trench warfare and by the suicide of an old flame, for which Screenwriter: Damien Chazelle turns intimate meditation and whimsical, exuberant Hollywood-style
MS: A to Z
Editor: Jan Mattlach
he feels responsible. Worse, both the town’s handsome gravedigger
Cinematographer: Damien Chazelle
extravaganza. The boy-meets-girl plot is fittingly, affectingly simple:
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Cast: Karel Roden, Lucia Siposova,
and a sly sacristan from the local parish have fixed their gaze on his
Editor: Damien Chazelle
after dating Madeline (Desiree Garcia) for three months, Guy (Jason
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Václav Jirácek, Vladimír Dlouhy beautiful wife, Anicka (Lucia Sipisova). But there’s a crucial twist:
Cast: Jason Palmer, Desiree Garcia,
Palmer), an up-and-coming trumpeter, meets someone else and ends
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2008 / color / 108 min.
when shell-shocked Josef is suddenly struck deaf, the villagers begin
Sandha Khin, Andre Hayward
their relationship. But when the affair goes awry and he tries to get
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gossiping openly about his wife. Then his hearing unexpectedly returns
2009 / b&w / 82 min.
her back, he finds it might be too late – Madeline has moved on.
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– unbeknownst to anyone else, even Anicka. Listening in on the nasty
talk, he begins to seethe. Chazelle began the film as a short for his senior thesis at Harvard,
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DaMiEn ChazELLE
then left school to turn it into a full-length feature (though he
Filip Renc works as a production Born in 1985, Damien Chazelle was
designer, writer, and director on a wide
Set mostly in numbing winter, director Filip Renc’s vivid melodrama is a
raised in Paris and Princeton, New
returned to graduate in 2008). He wrote the lyrics to the score as
variety of Czech film and television
festival of big emotions – guilt, envy, desire, vengeance, and bloodlust.
Jersey. Growing up, he devoted himself
well as the script and appears in a cameo playing drums; he even
productions. In addition, he has acted It is also an homage: it is adapted from a 1926 book by the Czech to jazz drumming, playing around the enlisted his father, a computer scientist at Princeton, to perform a
in such internationally acclaimed Czech
psychological novelist Josef Kopta, which was filmed once before, in
world; in 2003, he won the Best Solo
musical number. Palmer, meanwhile, brings major musical cred to the
films as Dark Blue World and Kolya. He
1937, by director Josef Rovensky. The passage of time has surely allowed
Drums at America’s Best High School
film – he was named one of the Top 25 Trumpeters of the Future by
is perhaps best known for his daring
the new version, produced by Czech Television on a relatively small
Jazz Competition. He graduated from
Downbeat and has performed at the Blue Note, the Village Vanguard,
musical comedy, Rebels, based on the Harvard in June 2008, where he began
1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
budget, to treat its subject with more frankness while also ensuring
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench as a
the Kennedy Center, and the Tanglewood Music Center, as well as
greater perspective on the post–World War I era in Europe, when the
short for his senior thesis.
on The Tonight Show. Garcia, for her part, earned her PhD at Boston
Selected Filmography wounds of combat – physical and psychic – were still smarting. University in the midst of filming Guy and Madeline and is now an
At Your Own Risk (2008)
assistant professor of film studies at Ursinus College in Philadelphia.
From Subway with Love (2005)
In cooperation with: bouncingCzechs.US productions
Rebels (2001)
Requiem for a Maiden (1991)
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