Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2016

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We Are Never Alone We Are Never Alone
We Are Never Alone and Eva Nová
Blue Shadows (Modré stíny) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Viktor Taus; Writer: Petr Jarchovský; Stars: Klára Melísková, Stanislav Majer, Miroslav Krobot, Tereza Vorísková, David Novotný, Tomás Dastlík, Martin Huba, Martin Pechlát, Andrei Toader, Dana Novak Pesková, Miroslav Chýle, Zdenek Fator, Eva Jenícková, Matous Rajmont, Jirí Strébl)
In this four-part crime miniseries, Olomouc detectives have to deal with the elusive and ambivalent enemies behind the murder of a university lecturer.
Courage ( Odvaha) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Pavel Štingl)
Documentary dialogue between filmmaker Pavel Štingl and one of the iconic figures of Czech modern art, sculptor and painter Jaroslav Róna.
Doomed Beauty (Zkáza krásou) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Jakub Hejna, Helena Trestíková; Writer: Jakub Hejna, Helena Trestíková; Stars: Lída Baarová, Vladimír Borský, Frantisek Cáp, Gustav Fröhlich, Joseph Goebbels, Natasa Gollová, Adolf Hitler, Emil Hácha, Zorka Janu, Václav Krska, Carl Lamac, Adina Mandlová, Jaroslav Marvan, Oldrich Nový, Frantisek Paul)
Documentary about actress Lída Baarová.
Eva Nová (Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2015; Director: Marko Skop; Writer: Marko Skop; Stars: Emília Vásáryová, Juliana Olhová, Dusan Jamrich, Zofia Martisová, Michaela Melisová, Gabriela Dolná, Milan Ondrík, Anikó Varga, Gabriela Dzuríková, Michaela Cillikova, Lubo Gregor, Alexander Lukac, Jaroslava Sisakova, Valeria Furjesova)
A glimpse into an ageing woman’s oppressive world where alcohol is quickening the process of decline.
Family Film (Rodinny Film) (Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia, France; Year: 2015; Director: Olmo Omerzu; Writer: Olmo Omerzu, Nebojsa Pop Tasic; Stars: Karel Roden, Jenovéfa Boková, Martin Pechlát)
A family starts to disintegrate after the mother and father leave the children home alone.
Family Film Family Film
Family Film and I, Olga Hepnarová
In Your Dreams! (Ani ve snu!) (Country: Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia; Year: 2016; Director: Petr Oukropec; Writer: Egon Tobiás; Stars: Martina Kavanová, Ivan Martinka, Klára Melísková, Adam Misík, Jáchym Novotný, Veronika Pouchová, Toman Rychtera, Barbora Stikarová, Jan Vondrácek, Tomás Zonyga)
Can you imprison someone in a dream? It’s very likely that teenager Laura has succeeded in doing just that, which isn’t so great because the prisoner is her new love interest.
I, Mattoni - Honeymoon in Vienna (Já, Mattoni - Vídeňské líbánky) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Marek Najbrt)
Immediately after his wedding night Heinrich Mattoni sets off for Vienna, where there’s everything to play for. The young entrepreneur has to prove that he really is capable of turning water into gold…
I, Olga Hepnarová (Já, Olga Hepnarová) (Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, France; Year: 2016; Director: Petr Kazda, Tomás Weinreb; Writer: Roman Cílek, Tomás Weinreb, Petr Kazda; Stars: Michalina Olszanska, Martin Pechlát, Klára Melísková, Marika Soposká, Juraj Nvota, Martin Finger, Marta Mazurek, Ondrej Malý, Petra Nesvacilová, Ivan Palúch, Gabriela Mícová, Zuzana Stavná, Jan Novotny, Viktor Vrabec, Malwina Turek)
Period drama about a real-life murderer.
Lost In Munich (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2015; Director: Petr Zelenka; Writer: Petr Zelenka; Stars: Marcial Bo Di Fonzo, Jana Plodková, Václav Neuzil, Václav Kopta, Martin Mysicka, Jitka Schneiderová, Stanislas Pierret, Marek Taclík, Vladimír Skultéty, Michel Fleischmann, Tomás Bambusek, Jakub Zelezný)
The absurd story of French prime minister Edouard Daladier's parrot, a witness to the Munich Conference, who reveals its secrets decades later.
Tiger Theory (Teorie tygra) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Radek Bajgar; Writer: Radek Bajgar, Mirka Zlatníková; Stars: Lucia Siposová, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Eliska Balzerová, Jirí Bartoska, Iva Janzurová, Milan Lasica, Klára Melísková, Jakub Kohák, Ondrej Pavelka, Jaromír Dulava, Pavla Beretová, Ivana Uhlírová, Jirí Havelka, Arnost Goldflam, Eva Salzmanová)
Can a timid and domesticated rabbit morph back into a feral tiger?
Under The Sun Under The Sun
Under The Sun and Lost In Munich
Under The Sun (V paprscích slunce) (Country: Czech Republic, Russia, Germany, North Korea, Latvia; Year: 2015; Director: Vitaliy Manskiy; Writer: Vitaliy Manskiy)
A film about an ordinary family in Pyongyang.
We Are Never Alone (Nikdy nejsme sami) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Petr Václav; Writer: Petr Václav; Stars: Klaudia Dudová, Zdenek Godla, Miroslav Hanus, Karel Roden, Lenka Vlasáková)
Bleak lives intersect in a small town in the Czech Republic.
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