09-08-2013

PRODUCTION: Czech Village Tale Nowhere Shooting in Hills

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    Director Miroslav Krobot Director Miroslav Krobot

    Miroslav Krobot's original script chronicling the pitfalls of love in a small Moravian town, Nowhere (Díra u Hanušovic), is filming in the Czech Republic's Jeseniky mountains, which form and shape the story, according to the director.

    "The Jeseník Mountains shape their inhabitants, and vice versa," Krobot told FNE. "The mountains are a reflection of the people who live there." That includes innkeeper Maruna, who is searching for a partner among the local men while dealing with the complications of her sister, mother and staff. A second plot involves the foresters Laďa and Balin, and their mutual partner, "Laďa’s old woman.”

    "Their story does not have much of a happy end," Krobot said. "The movie takes place during the present in an authentic village environment that suffers from uncontrollable depopulation, making everything more complicated for our heroes. We would like to shoot an entertaining film with a novel sense of poetry and a captivating and contemporary storytelling form.

    With few stationary dialogue scenes, Krobot said, Nowhere is inspired by "the poetics and subtle humor of Aki Kaurismäki or the Coen brothers, but also Czech interwar dramas, the work of the Mrštík brothers, or the poetics of 1960s theatre of the absurd." Nowhere, which won 115,000 EUR (3m CZK) from the Czech cinematography fund is budgeted at 800,000 EUR, co-produced by Czech Television and set to premiere in March via Eeap Film Distribution.

    Production information
    Evolution Films
    Senovážné náměstí 10
    110 00 Praha 1
    Czech Republic
    Tel. +420 222 240 770
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    http://www.evolutionfilms.cz

    Credits
    Director: Miroslav Krobot
    Screenplay: Miroslav Krobot, Lubomír Smékal
    DoP: Jan Baset Střítežský
    Set design: Jan Vlček
    Costume design: Katarina Hollá
    Makeup artist: Lukáš Král

    Cast:
    Tatiana Vilhelmová
    Lenka Krobotová
    Ivan Trojan
    Johanna Tesařová
    Jaroslav Plesl
    Simona Babčáková
    David Novotný
    Hynek Čermák
    Lukáš Latinák
    Ján Kožuch
    Klára Melíšková
    Martin Myšička