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When journalists are denied access to a news story it just makes them all the more hungry for information. This was the case in March 2017, when the existing Czech president was preparing to announce whether or not he would be running for re-election. Except that the announcement was made at Prague Castle in the presence of a close circle of supporters and friends – reporters were not admitted. Documentary filmmaker Tomáš Bojar, who always tailors his formal concepts to suit the given subject matter, unobtrusively tracks staff at two different Czech newsrooms as they embark on their one-day scramble for this breaking news. At the same time he elegantly draws attention to the journalistic dimension of “objective” reporting, indiscriminately coloured by the views and attitudes of specific individuals. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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A remarkable observational documentary about one specific event, which does not bring much new to those who are familiar with the Czech social and political context. Ironically, those who are not familiar with it will find it difficult to orient themselves in the film. The funny excursion to the tense workplaces of Czech Television and the Hospodářské noviny editorial office shows how things usually work at these media institutions (and what kind of people work there and how they talk to each other, even though you find out their names and job functions at the very end). This is a light-humor testimony about the difficult work of journalists, the cunning of the President and the mocking of the bizarreness of the Czech political scene.
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