Byeway

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Trailer
Czech Republic, 2014, 75 min

Directed by:

Ivo Bystřičan

Screenplay:

Ivo Bystřičan

Cinematography:

Tomáš Pavelek, Prokop Souček

Composer:

Richard Wagner
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Plots(1)

Story of a few kilometers long section of highway resisting its completion is a parable of the barriers that the construction of the highway built between people. It points out the dysfunctions of the state and its institutions, but also the impermanence of values. Within the unique volcanic landscape, a true model of the modern society's functioning raises right before our eyes. Through it, as an indelible memento of the inability to reach agreement, winds the highway. Even after many years, the builders cannot put the few remaining kilometers of D8 highway from Prague to Berlin, which leads through the protected area of Bohemian Central Uplands, into operation. (official distributor synopsis)

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kaylin 

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English But yeah, it's an interesting view of our Chaosville, where frog-mouse wars are waged, laws are being broken, and everyone is right. It annoys me, but when you look at it, that activist who was very annoying to me actually came out on top. I'm not saying this because it was wrong, but rather because nothing else worked there. Only he stood by his beliefs and to some extent, he was right. ()