The Snake Brothers (2015)

Brothers Grass and Cobra Snake feel unable to build up a life to be satisfied with. Grass, unemployed and still without a girl, does not know how to escape from the shadow of his druggie and troublemaker brother Cobra.

Director:

Jan Prusinovský

Writer:

Jaroslav Zvácek

Stars:

Matej Hádek, Krystof Hádek, Jan Hájek

7 wins & 4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Matej Hádek	...	Uzovka
Krystof Hádek	...	Kobra
Jan Hájek	...	Tomás
Lucie Zácková	...	Zuza
David Máj	...	Ládík
Lucie Polisenská	...	Kaca
Vera Kubánková	...	Babicka
Jana Sulcová	...	Matka
Jan Vápeník
Martin Bonhard
Thomas Zielinski
Pavel Tesar
Ivana Lokajová
Adrian Gabaj
Tobias Rimsky

Storyline

Brothers Grass and Cobra Snake, in their late and early thirties respectively, live in a small Czech town not far from Prague. Coming from a disfunctional family, they both feel unable to build up a life to be satisfied with. Grass, unemployed and still without a girl, does not know how to escape from the shadow of his druggie and troublemaker brother Cobra. Things seem to change for Grass when all at once he gets the opportunity to be part of a promising business and starts a relationship with the waitress of a local pub. It is just then when Cobra and his addiction show up in his life once more to put him on the verge of losing everything he achieved. But this time Grass is determined to not let anybody or anything stop his last chance in life to be happy and he decides to teach his brother a life lesson he should never forget.... A lesson that uncontrollably turns into a nightmare...

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Plot Keywords:

pub | business | sex | stolen tv set | accidental death | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook

Country:

Czech Republic

Language:

Czech English German

Release Date:

19 February 2015 (Czech Republic)

Also Known As:

The Snake Brothers

Company Credits

Production Co:

Offside MEN, Ceská Televize

Technical Specs

Runtime:

106 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1 / (high definition)

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in Vsechnopárty: Episode dated 20 February 2015 (2015)

User Reviews

Hope bad and do not be disappointed

All aspects of this movie are average at best, which sends the effort of seasoned authors into the realms of desperate mediocrity. The outcome is a bundle of rather incoherent sketches, that leave a mild smile on your face that soon vaporises along with a rather hazy memory of the movie as a whole. And in a week's time you might be asking yourself, what was it all about? Where your chum might remind you of an entertaining front-seat self-abuse scene. Indeed a quality farce for medieval peasants it is. If you hope for more, you could be disappointed. To make my review eligible, I am asked to pad the text with junk words. I am sure the authors meant well. But I also believe, the thought or the intended absence of the same lies at the heart of any art piece. Usually this thought serves as a building ground for the story. Trying to make a story, though entertaining, in hope that the absence of the ground will not be palpable or the audience will make up one of their own, is quite naive and a sure recipe for a disaster. Also one would expect this kind of approach in a prepubescent author, rather than a mature experienced one. Let us hope their next endeavor will be better prepared and exercised. For their own benefit, as uncanny support of mass-media can help only so much