Karamazovi (2008)

Director:

Petr Zelenka

Writers:

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novel)
Evald Schorm (stage adaptation)

Release Date:

24 April 2008 (Czech Republic)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

One Word Title | Based On Novel | Character Name In Title

Awards:

4 wins & 7 nominations

Cast

Martin Mysicka	...	Himself / Alyosha Karamazov
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michaela Badinková	...	Herself / Katya
Jerzy Michal Bozyk	...	Pianist
Igor Chmela	...	Himself / Ivan Karamazov
Malgorzata Galkowska
Radek Holub	...	Himself / Smerdyakov
Lenka Krobotová	...	Herself / Grushenka
Klara Lidova	...	Dancer
Roman Luknár	...	Himself / Director
Andrzej Mastalerz	...	Serviceman
Marek Matejka	...	Himself / Commissioner / Judge
David Novotný	...	Himself / Dmitriy Karamazov
Jerzy Rogalski
Pavel Simcík	...	Himself / Innkeeper
Ivan Trojan	...	Stary Karamazov
Lucie Zácková	...	Liza

Also Known As:

Bracia Karamazow (Poland)
The Karamazov Brothers (International: English title)
The Karamazovs (Europe: English title) (festival title)

Runtime:

Czech Republic:110 min | Argentina:113 min

Country:

Czech Republic | Poland

Language:

Czech | Polish | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Czech Republic:U | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Hradek, Czech Republic

Company:

Ceská Televize

Trivia:

Czech Republic's 2009 Academy Awards official submission to Foreign-Language Film category.

Great experience of theater, but from a film

Is theater entertainment, or do actors in performance live on the sharp edges of blades and ride the needles that cut and sew ideas and social fabrics? Professionally and dispassionately, that is, just like other workers in public service, doing their jobs.

In this movie an intelligent Polish service worker with another career, handyman and building custodian, has the misfortune of preparing a makeshift set in a factory for a production of a "Karamazovs". The production and rehearsal is routine for the actors, but anything but routine for the Pole, for whom is that too-well-lit roadside set of hazard lights and explanations. His perfect storm.

Three times the number of American -based viewers just saw a screening of this as Euoropean IMDb raters, brought with the Director by the Czech Embassy and the Film Curator of the National Gallery of Art.

Be prepared for those serious issues of Fyodor D's: Chance, intent, patrimony and fraternity, predestination, and God. But, you're only watching a rehearsal; and the actors are loose, having done this many times before, so they won't pressure you to TAKE IT ALL SERIOUSLY. You can have a within-you / without-you experience. You're safe, but you've been threatened.