Odcházení (2011)

The life of Marcela, an ordinary Czech woman is explored throughout several decades of her life. We are engaged to struggle and fight back with Marcela as her tragic life unfolds before our eyes especially when dealing with her daughter’s unexpected death, which almost drives her to suicide. The film was initially part of a series about the fate of six married couples, but the events that happened throughout Marcela’s life were the reason why the director decided to focus solely on a documentary about her.

An original portrayal of a small Czech village where – as the locals put it – an UFO has landed in the form of a kilometre-long silverish factory: a Korean Hyundai automobile plant. The village, hitherto famous mostly for its sauerkraut and the “Radegast” beer was thus turned into an industrial zone – the largest greenfield investment project in the Czech Republic’s history. Nonetheless, for a long time many farmers resisted selling the land upon which the factory was now standing. Eventually, they all succumbed under the pressure from the neighbours, and even the anonymous death threats. The filmmakers returned to Nošovice two years after the dramatic property buyouts, at the time when the factory has just started churning out cheap cars. Combining the perspectives of seven characters, they have composed a portrayal of a place suddenly changed beyond recognition that is playful and chilling at the same time: a politically engaged absurd flick about a field that yields cars.

From the makers of legendary CZECH DREAM, a hilarious documentary about a hoax hypermarket, comes CZECH PEACE, a new playfully explosive flm about the mayor of a small Czech village and his attempts to foil the American plan to build its 762nd military base right on his doorstep. The players in this story are everyone from villagers to George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama, peace activists and lobbyists representing American arms manufacturers. Can the Mayor of Trokavec (population 80) take the US on? CZECH PEACE shows the workings of geopolitics and the way they affect the little people. The personal clashes with the impersonal, the specifc with the universal, and an individual with the so-called great history.

2차 세계대전 중인 1943년. 스웨덴의 작은 도시 말뫼의 한 고등학교. 크리스마스 휴일이 끝나고 새학기가 시작되는 첫날, 스틱(Stig: 요한 비더버그 분)은 새로 부임한 여교사 비올라(Viola: 마리카 라저카랜츠 분)와 세일즈맨인 남편 프랭크와 마주친다. 비올라와의 관계가 비정상적임을 깨달은 스틱은 자신을 짝사랑하던 또래 이웃 소녀와 풋풋한 사랑을 나누는 등 평범한 학생으로 돌아갈 결심을 한다. 하지만 자신을 멀리함을 느낀 비올라는 스틱과의 관계를 지속시키려는 여러가지 노력이 실패하자, 급기야 유급이라는 제재를 가한다. 또한 부모의 기대를 한 몸에 받을 뿐 아니라, 따르고 의지하던 형마저 잠수함 울프호의 침몰로 전사하자 스틱의 고뇌는 절정에 달한다. 17세 소년 스틱은 전쟁, 이루어 질 수 없는 사랑, 형의 죽음, 사춘기의 고뇌, 유급이라는 좌절 등을 겪으며 한층 성숙되어 간다.