SHADOW COUNTRY

Directed by Bohdan Slama
2020
Czech Republic
2h14
Starring : Magdalena Borova, Stanislav Majer, Pavel Novy, Bara Polakova
Cinematography: Divis Marek
Music: Jakub Kudlác
Scénario : Ivan Arsenyev
Editing : Jan Danhel
Production : Jindrich Motyl et Martin Ruzicka

 

Synopsis

Between the 1930s and the 1950s, the inhabitants of a small border village in the south of Bohemia find themselves confronted by significant political and ethnic dilemmas. Hitherto insignificant conflicts between neighbours soon come to provoke injustices, acts of revenge and folly. A superb rural chronicle about ordinary people who are swept along in the torment of history.

Biographie

Bohdan Slama

Born in 1967 in Opava, a city in the Northern Czechcoslovakia. Graduated from the FAMU in Prague, he made his first feature in 2001, The Wild Bees, and won numerous awards at international film festivals, including Rotterdam. Then, he directed Somethink Like Happiness (2005), The Country Teacher (2008), Four Suns (2012) and Ice Mother (2017).

Contact

Luminar Films www.luminarfilm.cz