Alexander Šurkala

Nacimiento : 1971-09-23, Presov, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia)

Películas

Un secreto para Adi
Director of Photography
Tormented with his 'under-privileged' societal status, a father capitalizes on his son's newfound fame as a boy-genius. Little does he realize that the secret he harbors will destroy the very thing he loves the most.
Droneman
Director of Photography
Droneman is about Chemist and Fly Navigator Pavel and his friend Bussinessman and free time Rapper Plech. Pavel has strong sense of justice and wishes to fix wrongs with the World while Plech dreams about Big money and secure life. Their common passion are Drones since School. Pavel returns from Foreign and meets again with Plech and together they use Drones to start Bussiness. They monitor Power Stations, wear luxury handbags at the show or spray the Petrin Tower from the air. Their clients even include Presidential candidate. Everything changes when one of them decides to misuse Drones.
The Prague Orgy
CNN cameraman
In 1976 a famous American writer Nathan Zuckerman is challenged by Czech immigrant Sisovsky who implores him to retrieve valuable manuscripts from communist Czechoslovakia. The writer accepts this dangerous mission, where his every step is observed by secret police. Once in Prague, he meets Sisovsky‘s flamboyant and wild ex-wife Olga who is in possession of the manuscripts. The evolving relationship between the hot-headed Olga and Nathan is a confrontation between two worlds - the repressed East and free West. But, Olga won‘t give up the manuscripts to Nathan so easily…
The Prague Orgy
Director of Photography
In 1976 a famous American writer Nathan Zuckerman is challenged by Czech immigrant Sisovsky who implores him to retrieve valuable manuscripts from communist Czechoslovakia. The writer accepts this dangerous mission, where his every step is observed by secret police. Once in Prague, he meets Sisovsky‘s flamboyant and wild ex-wife Olga who is in possession of the manuscripts. The evolving relationship between the hot-headed Olga and Nathan is a confrontation between two worlds - the repressed East and free West. But, Olga won‘t give up the manuscripts to Nathan so easily…
The Humorist
Director of Photography
The Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships.
Tonight the World
Cinematography
Tonight the World draws from a cross-section of dream diaries kept by Martin’s grandmother, Susi Stiassni, who fled the imminent Nazi occupation of Czechoslavakia in 1938. Through five chapters, the film links as many dreams sited in Susi’s childhood home, Villa Stiassni, a modernist mansion built by Susi’s parents, who were prominent Jewish textile manufacturers in the industrial hub of Brno. Conjured in Susi’s imagination from her middle-age onwards, in the context of psychoanalysis, the dream diaries as a whole span 40 years and 40,000 dreams, but Martin’s selection focuses tightly on dreams about intruders within the Villa, recreating a narrative of threat and escape that parallels Susi’s lived experience. Retracing the legacy of her grandmother’s emotional history, Martin considers the unconscious underpinnings of intergenerational trauma, loss and resilience.
The Noonday Witch
Director of Photography
A story of Eliska and her daughter, starting a new life in a remote house with the 'father away on business', as the mother claims. After the lie is disclosed, their relationship begins to wither. At that time, the mythical Noonday Witch begins to materialize. She is coming closer and closer and the question is poised: is the danger real or is it all in the mother's crumbling head?
Lost in Munich
Cinematography
10 Rules
Cinematography
The 10 Rules comedy tells a story of a shy scientist Marek who falls hopelessly in love with a seemingly inaccessible girl. His friends determined to help him, call Marek’s father, a successful publisher of books on the subject of how to get a woman. Together, they begin to develop a very peculiar course on girl psychology. However, do these 10 sure-fire rules apply exactly as described in the books?
Milagro en Praga
Director of Photography
Para romper la supuesta maldición que sufre su hija Penélope, quien no ha podido embarazarse, Mercedes y su familia viajarán de México a República Checa para regresar a su lugar de origen la auténtica estatuilla del milagroso Niño Jesús de Praga. Sin embargo, este suceso desencadenará una serie de extraños incidentes, encuentros románticos y pequeños milagros que sólo pueden ocurrir en la mágica atmósfera navideña de la “Ciudad Dorada”.
Touchless
Director of Photography
Jolana (18) is an object of her step-father's desire. She is unable to cope, especially when her own mother turns a blind eye. Those events are heavily paid for when she finds herself working in a brothel. Her inability to cope raise a question: What is it she actually wants? Are her dreams of escaping really better than the reality she finds herself in?
Un asunto real
Second Unit Cinematographer
Para la joven Carolina Matilde (Alicia Vikander), casada siendo una adolescente con el rey de Dinamarca Christian VII, es un horror vivir con un marido ciclotímico y estrafalario que propone medidas como nombrar a su perro miembro honorario del Consejo de Estado, o que circulen en Copenhague por la noche carruajes vacíos para recoger a los borrachos. Así las cosas, Carolina se rinde a los encantos del médico personal del rey, un intelectual progresista (Mads Mikkelsen) que se verá dividido entre su lealtad al rey, su amor a la reina y su oportunidad de convertir una Dinamarca aún medieval en un país ilustrado.
Habermann
Director of Photography
La vida de August Habermann, un alemán propietario de un molino en la zona montañosa de los Sudetes, y su familia cambia drásticamente en 1938, cuando Europa entra en guerra. Cuando los militares alemanes llegan a la zona, los habitantes de origen checo se convierten en ciudadanos de segunda.
Two Syllables Behind
Director of Photography
Whisper
Director of Photography
Anna, una niña de 16 años que vive en los palos, intercambia su educación militar de por vida en la gran ciudad. Huir a Praga abre un mundo completamente nuevo donde bebe su primer capuchino y conoce a la clase de personas que solo ha visto en las películas.