If you pitched the plot of Brothers, the Czech Republic’s official Oscar submission for best international film, as a screenplay, you’d get back studio notes calling it “unbelievable” and “over-the-top.”
Two brothers — Josef and Radek Mašín, sons of a legendary anti-Nazi resistance fighter Josef Mašín — take up arms against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, carrying out targeting killings and acts of sabotage. When they get pinned in by the authorities, they shoot their way out and take off on a death-defying escape to West Berlin, crossing Czechoslovakia and East Germany, while pursued by Red Army soldiers and 20,000 East German police in the biggest manhunt in Cold War history. But the story, told by director Tomáš Mašín in Brothers is all true.
“It’s the utmost poignant and inspiring story,” says Mašín, who is a distant relative to the Mašín brothers, in a THR Presents panel powered by Vision Media.
Two brothers — Josef and Radek Mašín, sons of a legendary anti-Nazi resistance fighter Josef Mašín — take up arms against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, carrying out targeting killings and acts of sabotage. When they get pinned in by the authorities, they shoot their way out and take off on a death-defying escape to West Berlin, crossing Czechoslovakia and East Germany, while pursued by Red Army soldiers and 20,000 East German police in the biggest manhunt in Cold War history. But the story, told by director Tomáš Mašín in Brothers is all true.
“It’s the utmost poignant and inspiring story,” says Mašín, who is a distant relative to the Mašín brothers, in a THR Presents panel powered by Vision Media.
- 12/5/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Icy cold but so heart-warming, this funny study of three generations of a family brings out our best feelings as we partake in the liberation of a sixty-seven-year-old widow as she finally manages to shake off the influence of her selfish sons in order to begin a new life.
When Hana, played by the well-loved actress, Zuzana Kronerova, finds a group of eccentric ice swimmers, a new world opens to her and her grandson who is facing bullying at school and self-occupied parents at home.
Is there an age limit to changing your life? Are you ever too old or too young?And once you decide to go ahead with it, your nearest and dearests’ reactions, especially their efforts dissuade in order to protect their own fragile balance in life become apparent in Bohdan Sláma’s new tragicomedy in which a sixty-seven-year-old widow finally manages to shake off the influence...
When Hana, played by the well-loved actress, Zuzana Kronerova, finds a group of eccentric ice swimmers, a new world opens to her and her grandson who is facing bullying at school and self-occupied parents at home.
Is there an age limit to changing your life? Are you ever too old or too young?And once you decide to go ahead with it, your nearest and dearests’ reactions, especially their efforts dissuade in order to protect their own fragile balance in life become apparent in Bohdan Sláma’s new tragicomedy in which a sixty-seven-year-old widow finally manages to shake off the influence...
- 11/12/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Czech actor, theatre director and chief of the theatre Dejvické Divadlo, Miroslav Krobot, possessing as diverse acting experience on top of the directing work as playing the lead in Bela Tarr´s The Man from London or having himself rotoscoped for the Alois Nebel graphic novel adaptation, made what seems to be only a natural step into the shoes of a film director. His debut, a bleak comedy Nowhere in Moravia, adheres to the current theme of floppers as a zeitgeist defining topic. And Krobot´s stab on the subject affirms that it is not a sole privilege belonging to young filmmakers by taking viewers for a stroll through an existential wasteland where a tiny population leads their grey lives. Maruna (amusingly laidback Tatiana Vilhelmová) works in a local pub, axis...
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- 11/23/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Seven world premieres and five international premieres include an animated movie for the first time in competition; Us drama Low Down starring John Hawkes and Elle Fanning; and Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson’s follow-up to Either Way.
The 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12) has revealed the line-ups for its Official Selection Competition, East of the West Competition, Documentary Films Competition and Forum of Independents Competition.
Kv artistic director Karel Och said: “This year’s selection of competing films offers an exciting mixture of outstanding films whose completion has been eagerly anticipated.
“Many of the filmmakers, who explore less frequently trodden paths of cinematic expression, come from the countries of the former Eastern Bloc, which the Kviff has long focused on.”
In the main festival section, renowned Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili (The Other Bank) will introduce his long-anticipated film Corn Island, a psychological drama that uses captivating imagery and visuals to present a highly topical subject...
The 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12) has revealed the line-ups for its Official Selection Competition, East of the West Competition, Documentary Films Competition and Forum of Independents Competition.
Kv artistic director Karel Och said: “This year’s selection of competing films offers an exciting mixture of outstanding films whose completion has been eagerly anticipated.
“Many of the filmmakers, who explore less frequently trodden paths of cinematic expression, come from the countries of the former Eastern Bloc, which the Kviff has long focused on.”
In the main festival section, renowned Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili (The Other Bank) will introduce his long-anticipated film Corn Island, a psychological drama that uses captivating imagery and visuals to present a highly topical subject...
- 6/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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