Smradi
Directed by:
Zdeněk TycScreenplay:
Tereza BoučkováCinematography:
Patrik HoznauerCast:
Ivan Trojan, Petra Špalková, Magdalena Sidonová, Zdeněk Dušek, Jaroslava Pokorná, Jan Cina, Lukáš Rejsek, Tomáš Klouda, Tomáš Pavelka (more)Plots(1)
This simple tale provides an open look at questions of everyday intolerance, love, and family. Marek and Monika Šír leave Prague for the country. Their goal is to find a better environment for their two adopted sons, both Romany by birth, and better air for their own boy, an asthma sufferer. But their dream of an open and natural environment soon vanishes when an elderly neighbor accuses young František of breaking the windshield of his car. The villagers are not very obliging to the newcomers and living among such intentional ill will, which seems to be heading towards litigation, leads the Šírs to react unthinkingly. (official distributor synopsis)
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Tyc and the Roma question for the first time. The story of Tereza Boučková, Pavel Kohout's daughter, has gone beyond authenticity. This time the story was thankfully not influenced by Kohout. It must have been very liberating to come out with a new film after seven years and forget the debacle when he was awarded the Czech prize for the worst film. Moreover, it was based on the then refreshing and new success of Ivan Trojan. Blessed be Tyc, but unfortunately, everything that followed was not the result of redemption, but only of the free passage of time and the demise of an authorial personality that was certainly capable of more. The film The Brats was not yet beyond the comfortable calculus in the style of "make something catchy about the Roma and the awards will roll in," but it was a start.
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