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24 September 2009 (Czech Republic)
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A Czech journalist joins a Prague radio station what broadcasts Nazi propaganda in order to protect his Jewish wife...
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2 wins
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(4 articles)
The Official Foreign Oscar Race: 63 Titles to Compete with A Prophet and White Ribbon
(From ioncinema. 12 December 2009, 6:25 PM, PST)
65 Countries Fight for Best Foreign Language Oscar Nomination
(From Manny the Movie Guy. 7 November 2009, 10:26 AM, PST)
(From ioncinema. 12 December 2009, 6:25 PM, PST)
65 Countries Fight for Best Foreign Language Oscar Nomination
(From Manny the Movie Guy. 7 November 2009, 10:26 AM, PST)
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Excellent film
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Matthias Brandt | ... | Radio Director | |
| Jan Budar | ... | Colleague | |
| Marek Daniel | ... | Emil Vrbata | |
| Cyril Drozda | |||
| Tomás Mechácek | ... | Petr | |
| Klára Melísková | ... | Vera | |
| Martin Mysicka | ... | Franta | |
| Leos Noha | |||
| Sandra Nováková | ... | Krista | |
| Jirí Ornest | ... | Fantl | |
| Jana Plodková | ... | Hana Vrbatová | |
| Josef Polásek | ... | Producer | |
| Jan Rehák | |||
| Simon Schwarz | ... | Gestapo Officer | |
| Daniel Sidon | ... | #176A8 | |
| Tomás Zatecka | ... | Jindra |
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Protector (Europe: English title)
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Czech Republic's official submission to 82nd Academy Award's Foreign Language in 2010.
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This is a review I posted on another forum.
Let me get the beauty of it out of the way first - it looks astonishing. The colors are fantastic, the highlights are beautiful and the shadows are surprisingly tense and deep. Take a classically beautiful noir film and make it even more beautiful, on better film stock, and add a better DP. Whoa man! However, with the editing, it throws you into many different spirals always wondering what is actually happening to the man, changing which characters you care about more and changing how you think a character is going to act - sending all of your ideas about what could happen next all over the spectrum.
My one complaint about the editing was that sometimes to relate scenes (relating scenes as in the way Tarantino did it with Pulp Fiction by having diegetic music in one scene that spills over into the next scene. It's done very often), the editor would show clips from the next scene in the current scene. Now it's very interesting, because it doesn't give you any idea what's going to happen next, it just adds to the emotion you are supposed to feel during that scene. While it adds a lot to the storytelling, it is noticeable. Like sound design, 99% of the time, good editing should go nearly unnoticed by the viewer. It's not at all that I don't like the editing, I just found it awkward at some points.
I won't even get into the score and music. See the movie! There was also one big problem with the ending - and I won't give any important information away, it's just that there should be no credit music. Once you see it, you'll know exactly what I mean.
Now maybe it won't win Best Foreign Film, but I'll be surprised if it isn't nominated.