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The Karamazov Brothers (2008)
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The Karamazov Brothers (2008)
Original name: Karamazovi
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Dostoevsky’s latter-day opus about the siblings and their father is among the masterpieces of world literature. It asks profound questions about ethics and religion. Is there a God? Does the devil exist? Is everything allowed because we live in a world without morality? And if so, does patricide even constitute a crime? One of the most interesting adaptations of the material is The Karamazovs by Czech director Petr Zelenka. We witness a group of thesps from Prague on a trip to Krakow in Poland to stage the novel as a play in a derelict steelworks as part of the Closer to Life Festival. The project, however, is born under the bad sign, apparently doomed from the start. When they arrive, the roof is about to cave in, so that the actors are told to wear safety helmets. Their sole consistent audience is a laborer (Andrzej Mastalerz) who rather follows each dress rehearsal than watching over his seven-year-old son who has suffered a tragic accident in the factory.
Style: sincere, atmospheric, captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, existential, contemplative, gloomy, metafiction ...
Plot: theater, parents and children, lifestyle, hopes, family relations, society, redemption, siblings relations, human nature, artists and showbiz, performer's life, dealing with death, brothers, spectacle, theatrical troupe, actor, actor's life, suicide, translator, factory, death of son, theatre group, actor playing himself, theatre production, performance
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: europe, eastern europe, poland, prague, central europe, czech republic
Keyword: czech

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Erratum (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
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Time: 21st century
Place: poland, europe
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33 Scenes from Life (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill with stomach cancer, the life of the family is falling apart. Julia accompanies her mother to death, but ...
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Time: 21st century
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Exit: A personal history (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still ...
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Barrymore (2011)
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Duration: 83 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
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Duration: 84 min.
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Duration: 97 min.
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Country: Germany
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