Princ Films has taken international rights to Slávek Horák’s “Havel,” a biopic about the Czech playwright, dissident and his country’s president Vaclav Havel, and will launch sales at the European Film Market.
The film recently received 14 nominations for the Czech Lion Awards, the leading Czech film awards, across all major categories including film, director, screenplay, and all acting categories. It also received two nominations for the Czech Film Critics’ Awards, best actor and actress.
“Havel” premiered at the Visegrad Cinema Days, run by the Kyiv Film Festival in the Ukraine, and went onto play a slew of festivals including Heartland (Indiana), where it was a finalist for best narrative feature, Montreal Independent, where Horák won best director, Rome Independent, where it won best feature, Warsaw, Tallinn Black Nights, São Paulo, Cottbus and Zagreb.
“Havel” stars Viktor Dvorák (“Three Brothers”) as Havel and follows the accomplished playwright and Czechoslovakia’s last President,...
The film recently received 14 nominations for the Czech Lion Awards, the leading Czech film awards, across all major categories including film, director, screenplay, and all acting categories. It also received two nominations for the Czech Film Critics’ Awards, best actor and actress.
“Havel” premiered at the Visegrad Cinema Days, run by the Kyiv Film Festival in the Ukraine, and went onto play a slew of festivals including Heartland (Indiana), where it was a finalist for best narrative feature, Montreal Independent, where Horák won best director, Rome Independent, where it won best feature, Warsaw, Tallinn Black Nights, São Paulo, Cottbus and Zagreb.
“Havel” stars Viktor Dvorák (“Three Brothers”) as Havel and follows the accomplished playwright and Czechoslovakia’s last President,...
- 2/11/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Black-and-white drama was showcased at the BFI London Film Festival.
US sales and distribution company Princ Films has acquired worldwide rights, excluding the US and Canada, to Czech director Bohdan Sláma’s drama Shadow Country, which it is introducing to buyers at AFM.
The black-and-white drama is set in a fictional village on the Czech-Austrian border and spans the 1930s to 1950s, inspired by true events of a genocide that occurred due to fallout between German citizens and Czechs who collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war.
It stars an ensemble cast of top acting Czech talent including Stanislav Majer,...
US sales and distribution company Princ Films has acquired worldwide rights, excluding the US and Canada, to Czech director Bohdan Sláma’s drama Shadow Country, which it is introducing to buyers at AFM.
The black-and-white drama is set in a fictional village on the Czech-Austrian border and spans the 1930s to 1950s, inspired by true events of a genocide that occurred due to fallout between German citizens and Czechs who collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war.
It stars an ensemble cast of top acting Czech talent including Stanislav Majer,...
- 11/9/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Honeymoon
Written by Petr Jarchovský
Directed by Jan Hrebejk
Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2013
One of the Czech Republic’s most prolific directors working today, Jan Hrebejk is known as a master satirist, looking at the Czech Republic’s past and its influence on the country today. He has been praised in the past for being able to eloquently capture in his films what other Czechs are still grappling with today. Most of his films deal with the mark left upon contemporary Czech society by decades of Soviet rule. He has explored these themes with great success in several celebrated black comedies and even in his most widely known work, the serio-comic World War II film Divided Fall.
Honeymoon finds him working once more with longtime collaborator Petr Jarchovský on perhaps his least comedic film yet. The story begins with the wedding of Tereza (Anna Geislerová) and Radim (Stanislav Majer), which seems...
Written by Petr Jarchovský
Directed by Jan Hrebejk
Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2013
One of the Czech Republic’s most prolific directors working today, Jan Hrebejk is known as a master satirist, looking at the Czech Republic’s past and its influence on the country today. He has been praised in the past for being able to eloquently capture in his films what other Czechs are still grappling with today. Most of his films deal with the mark left upon contemporary Czech society by decades of Soviet rule. He has explored these themes with great success in several celebrated black comedies and even in his most widely known work, the serio-comic World War II film Divided Fall.
Honeymoon finds him working once more with longtime collaborator Petr Jarchovský on perhaps his least comedic film yet. The story begins with the wedding of Tereza (Anna Geislerová) and Radim (Stanislav Majer), which seems...
- 9/19/2013
- by Laura Holtebrinck
- SoundOnSight
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