Section: Feature Film Competition

Zpráva o Záchrane Mrtvého

Saving One Who Was Dead

Václav Kadrnka
Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2021, 90 Min

Life and death: a man is in a coma. His wife and son stand by him at his bedside in defiance of fate and the dire prognosis of the doctors in this case for taking time for your loved ones as they near the end of life.

“Mama is sitting on your left and I'm sitting on your right. We are close to you. Open your eyes. Look at us ”: in hospital a son talks to his unconscious, comatose father. He and his mother even move into a visitor room to see father every day, to hold his hand and to talk to him. For the doctors, however, there is little hope. The patient's condition has stabilised, yet continues to stagnate.

Filmformat
1:1.85
Drehbuch
Václav Kadrnka, Marek Šindelka, Jiří Souku
Kamera
Raphael O´Byrne
Ton
5.1 Digital
Schnitt
Jan Daňhel
Ausstattung
Jana Bejblová
Musik
Irena a Vojtěch Havlovi
Darsteller
Vojtěch Dyk, Zuzana Mauréry, Petr Salavec
Produzent
Václav Kadrnka, Simona Kadrnková
Produktion
Sirius Films s.r.o.
Co-Produktion
Silverart
Kontakt
Sirius Films s.r.o.
Simona Kadrnková
kadrnkova@email.cz
Václav Kadrnka

Václav Kadrnka - After graduation at FAMU, he completed EIGHTY LETTERS, his full-length feature debut based on his mother ́s letters to his father during his emigration from the communist regime. This award-winning film premiered at Berlinale 2011 and traveled around the world. In 2017 he completed his second feature film LITTLE CRUSADER, an adaptation of a medieval poem by Jaroslav Vrchlicky. The film premiered at Karlovy Vary IFF and won the Grand Prix Crystal Globe. His latest film SAVING ONE WHO WAS DEAD is just before the festival release.

Currently he is developing a new feature project HORSE LATITUDES. In 2021 he and his wife Simona set up the production division Sirius Films Manual, in which they develop the first and second feature films of young film makers. Václav Kadrnka teaches film language at FAMU.