Section: Special: Fraternal Kiss

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The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

Jan Němec
Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, 2016, 68 Min

Jan Němec, the Czechoslovak New Wave pioneer who passed away last year, presents a self-deprecating retrospective look at his life. Cannes 1968: three Czechoslovak films are deprived of a shot at the awards when left-leaning intellectuals inspired by Jean-Luc Godard force the festival to be called off.

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Czech director John Jan is furious at Jean-Luc Godard since the latter prevented Jan's film from winning an award at Cannes. When Godard supports the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Jan's fury knows no bounds. Subsequently he emigrates to the West, where nobody has heard of his films: he searches for affluent sponsors, even stumbling upon the idea of asking a certain Donald Trump for help, before reconciling himself to keeping his head above water with commissioned films. 1989 arrives and he is finally allowed to return home, where (long-)overdue awards await. Based on events from Němec's life and times, his fate was typical for the times with its oscillations between past and present, reality and fiction. The fact remains that, as was the case with Němec, many artists and intellectuals were forced into exile. Promising careers often turned to nothing, whilst hopes of a new intellectual homeland floundered due to the chasm between leftist ideas in the East and West. CF

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Jan Němec
Kamera
Jiří Maxa
Ton
Dominik Dolejší
Schnitt
Josef Krajbich
Ausstattung
Aneta Grňáková
Musik
Dominik Dolejší, Eric Clapton, J. S. Bach
Darsteller
Jiří Mádl, Karel Roden, Martin Pechlát, Tomáš Klein, Gabriela Míčová, Jiří Menzel, Jiří Bartoška, Markéta Janoušková, Robin Kvapil, Táňa Pauhofová, Ted Otis
Produzent
Tomáš Michálek
Produktion
MasterFilm, s.r.o.
Co-Produktion
Czech Television, UPP, Media Film, Bocalupo Films
Kontakt
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Jan Němec

Jan Němec - born in 1936, died in 2016 in Prague, Czech Republic. Director, producer and teacher at FAMU. He was one of the leading figures of the Czechoslovak New Wave. In 1968 He was banned from making films and lived in exile. After his return he shot most of his films via his company Jan Němec – Film.

Movies
SOUSTO (1960, short)
DÉMANTY NOCI (1964)
ORATORIO FOR PRAGUE (1968, short, doc)
DIE VERWANDLUNG (1975)
NOCNÍ HOVORY S MATKOU (2001, doc)