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Prague Stories

World Cinema

CountryCzech Republic
Production Year1999
Running Time79min
Format35mm
ColorCOLOR

Program Note

Prague Stories is a film about relationships and love seen from four different perspectives. The punctuation of four full stops in the film′s title represents the film′s four directors: Vladimir Michalek, Michaela Pavlatova, Martin SulIk, and Artemio Benki. Each of them has shot a 20-minute episode set in contemporary Prague. Fatal crosses in love affairs, tragi-comic barriers in communication and the uneasy overcoming of distance and alienation are the topics of the individual episodes.

Director

Artemio Benki

Artemio Benki (b. 1966) began as a journalist, photographer and producer . He made a documentary My Land(1993) and produced The Moon Valley(1993) which won the first prize in film festivals in Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Cottbus and Freiburg.

Martin ŠULÍK

Born in Zilina in 1962, Martin Sŭlík studied directing at Film Academy VSMU in Bratislava. His films include Tenderness(1991), Everything I Love(1992), The Garden(1995), Private Skansen(1996), and Obis Pictus(1997).

Vladimir Michalek

Vladimir Michalek (b. 1956) studied documentary films at FAMU. His shorts include Junkies(89), Silence That Hurts(90) and Oh Mr. Anderson. His feature debut was based on Kafka′s "America". Sekal Must Die won Best Actor at the Karlovy Vary Festival.

Michaela Pavlatova

Michaela Pavlátová (b. 1961) is a well-known director of animated films. Talks, Talks, Talks(1991) received an Oscar nomination, followed by Repete (1994) and That Could Be Me(1995). Her lastest is Forever and Ever which won best Animation Film in Tampere Short Film Festival, Finland.

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