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Winter Flies

( 2018 )
Official Selection out of Competition |
 
Czech Republic
,
Slovakia
,
Slovenia
,
France
,
Poland
 |
 Czech |
 85 min

About the film

The police interrogate 14-year-old Mára at the station after he is caught behind the wheel far across country from where he lives. He and somewhat eccentric Heduš had set out for the frozen landscape down south to seek adventure; but the mischievous breeziness with which Mára gives his story, and his concealment of the details of the trip gradually strips his statement of credibility.

Director

Olmo Omerzu

Olmo Omerzu (Ljubljana, 1984) studied at the FAMU in Prague, where he directed several short films and a 40-minute feature film, The Second Act (2008), screened and awarded prizes at several European festivals. In 2011, Omerzu graduated from the FAMU with his first fiction feature A Night Too Young. Following its successful premiere in the Forum section of the 2012 Berlinale, the film was invited to numerous international festivals, winning several awards. In 2016, he directed Family Film which premiered in San Sebastian, in the New Directors section. Winter Flies is now is latest Feature having its world premiere at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, in competition.

Producer

Jiří Konečný

Production Company

Endor Film

Screenplay

Petr Pýcha

Cinematography

Lukáš Milota

Editing

Jana Vlčková

Sound

Daniel Nemec

Cast

Tomáš Mrvík, Jan František Uher, Eliška Křenková, Lenka Vlasáková, Martin Pechlát

Contacts

Producer

Jiří Konečný

Production Company

Endor Film

Screenplay

Petr Pýcha

Cinematography

Lukáš Milota

Editing

Jana Vlčková

Sound

Daniel Nemec

Cast

Tomáš Mrvík, Jan František Uher, Eliška Křenková, Lenka Vlasáková, Martin Pechlát

Contacts

More About Film

Winter. Police interrogate 14-year-old Mára at the station after he is caught behind the wheel far across country from where he lives. He and somewhat eccentric Heduš had set out for the frozen landscape down south to seek adventure, but the mischievous breeziness with which Mára gives his story, and his concealment of the details of the trip, gradually strip his statement of credibility… With uncommon directorial playfulness, Olmo Omerzu leads his central pair of young nonprofessional actors through the expanding narrative, in which a variety of detours arise with the same elegant spontaneity as they later disappear. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in winter, telling a story of boyhood friendship and the irrepressible desire to experience something, even if you don’t exactly know what.

Producer

Jiří Konečný

Production Company

Endor Film

Screenplay

Petr Pýcha

Cinematography

Lukáš Milota

Editing

Jana Vlčková

Sound

Daniel Nemec

Cast

Tomáš Mrvík, Jan František Uher, Eliška Křenková, Lenka Vlasáková, Martin Pechlát

More About Film

Winter. Police interrogate 14-year-old Mára at the station after he is caught behind the wheel far across country from where he lives. He and somewhat eccentric Heduš had set out for the frozen landscape down south to seek adventure, but the mischievous breeziness with which Mára gives his story, and his concealment of the details of the trip, gradually strip his statement of credibility… With uncommon directorial playfulness, Olmo Omerzu leads his central pair of young nonprofessional actors through the expanding narrative, in which a variety of detours arise with the same elegant spontaneity as they later disappear. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in winter, telling a story of boyhood friendship and the irrepressible desire to experience something, even if you don’t exactly know what.