Section: Special: Belarus

Imitace

Imitation

Sasha Stelchenko
Czech Republic, 2016, 17 Min

They say bad luck comes in threes, could the same be true of deceptions? A young Belarusian woman currently residing in Prague falls head over heels in love with a foreign businessman. Though she actually works as an au-pair for a local family, she masquerades as a student. One day her knight in shining armour announces his impending departure.

Film and TV School of Acedemy of Performing Arts in Prague

She plans to use their last meeting together as an opportunity to ask for a job with his company, but her guest family also have plans for the evening, requiring her to stay at home and look after the child. Anxious of missing her chance she spontaneously invites him to the family flat, and yet the evening doesn't run according to plan: the following morning the already tense relationship with the guest family escalates. Working on the basis of a true story director Sasha Stelchenko, a student of the FAMU film school in Prague, has created a compassionate drama that comes complete with an unexpected ending. MM

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Sasha Stelchenko
Kamera
Stanislav Adam
Ton
Ondřej Černohorský
Schnitt
Alexander Kashcheev
Ausstattung
Anna Astakhova
Musik
Ondřej Černohorský
Darsteller
Elizaveta Maximová, Matěj Merunka, Jana Janěková, Jiří Racek
Produzent
Tomáš Šimon
Produktion
Film and TV School of Acedemy of Performing Arts in Prague
Kontakt
Film and TV School of Acedemy of Performing Arts in Prague
Tomáš Šimon
Smetanovo nábř. 1012/2
11000 Prague
Czech Republic
+42.73.61.19.81
www.famu.cz
tomas.simon@studiofamu.cz
Sasha Stelchenko

Sasha Stelchenko - born in 1988 in Minsk, Belarus. He is in the third year of film directing at the FAMU in Prague where he attends a class lead by Bohdan Sláma and Jasmína Blaževič. He previously obtained a B.A. in Visual and Cultural Studies in Vilnius and in English Language in Minsk, his hometown.

Movies
NA USKRAYU (2014, short)