Czech Peace

Vit Klusák, Filip Remunda
  • Czech Republic
  • 2010
  • 104min
  • 35mm
  • Color
International Competition

Synopsis

From the makers of the legendary , a hilarious documentary about a hypermarket hoax, comes , a playfully explosive film about the mayor of a small Czech village and his attempts to foil an 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 American arms lobbyists. Can the Mayor of Trokavec (population 80) take on the US?

Director

  • Vit Klusák
    Graduate of the Department of Documentary Film at FAMU (Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts) Prague, since 2005 he has been teaching in the same department. He studied photography at the Industrial Graphic Arts School in Prague and has had two solo shows of photo exhibitionsgraphy. At present, in addition to the Nošovice project, he is preparing a black comedy film based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Czech writer Karel Jaromír Erben. He runs the independent production company, Hypermarket Film Ltd.

    Czech Peace (2010)
    Intermission (2006)
    Czech Dream (2004)
    Heaven (2003)
    Jazz War (2001)
  • Filip Remunda
    Filip Remunda is a Czech director, cinematographer and producer. In 2005 he graduated FAMU – documentary directing department in the workshop of Karel Vachek. His film, Village B., was named best documentary film at the 2002 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and at the 2003 FAMU Festival, and it received the Don Quixote Award at the 2003 Art Film festival, as well as several other prizes at festivals in Europe and the United States. He lectured at the Flaherty Documentary Seminar in the USA. Filip Remunda is the co-founder of the Institute of Documentary Film (www.docuinter.net). He runs the independent production company Hypermarket Film Ltd.

    Czech Peace (2010)
    The Tadpole, the Rabbit and the HollyGhost(2007)
    Film Encounters (2007)
    Czech Dream (2004)
    A.B.C.D.T.O.P.O.L. (2003)

Credits

  • Director  Vit Klusák, Filip Remunda
  • Producer  Filip Remunda, Irena TASKOVSKI
  • Writer  Vit Klusák, Filip Remunda
  • Cinematographer  Vit Klusák
  • Editor   Vit Klusák
  • Music  Midi Lidi
  • Sound  Michal GABOR, David NAGY

Production Company

  • Production Company  Hypermarket s.r.o

Distributor/World Sales

  • Distributor/World Sales  Taskovski Films
  • Address  463 Russel Square, Woburn Place, London WC1H 0NL, UK
  • Tel  231 944 4117
  • Fax  231 929 4263
  • Email  festivals@taskovskifilms.com