Cinematography:
Vít KlusákCast:
Tomáš Klvaňa, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Slavoj Žižek, Ivan Martin Jirous, Václav Moravec, Jan Vyčítal, Miloš Zeman, Ladislav Smoljak, Jiří Lábus (more)Plots(1)
Six years after the provocative documentary “Czech Dream” was greeted by enthusiastic public reception and a number of awards from around the world, a new full-length film from directors Vit Klusák and Filip Remunda, called “Czech Peace”, is coming to domestic cinemas on May 6. Like “Czech Dream”, this one will also be a documentary comedy, though this time the subject of the film is the controversy around the plan to build an American radar base in the Brdy Mountains. “With larger-than-life humor, ‘Czech Peace’ goes behind the public images to expose all the absurd conflicts around it. Everyone has heard or read about the radar, but we were there where it was happening with a camera to record the unexpected,” the creators explain. Despite or precisely because the American government cancelled the plan, the film still speaks to a current topic. “We believe this is a comedy about the character and quality of Czech democracy twenty years after the revolution,” they say. “The radar is mainly a phenomenon that divided Czech society. Top politicians and ordinary people speak side by side in the film. The first of these groups typically are recorded by history, though without the second group there would be no history.” In the film you will see Barack Obama, George Bush, Mirek Topolánek, Tomáš Klvaňa, Jan Neoral, Ivan M. Jirous, peace activists and the residents of Brdy, as well as a domesticated wild-boar named Jonaš. You will visit the Oval Office in the White House, the Pentagon and the clearings and woods around the Brdy elevation spot point 718. “It is a relief to laugh at self-centered politicians and at one’s own self,” Vit Klusák and Filip Remunda comment. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
George W. Bush
USA
Best movies:
Curveball (2020) - a.f.
Die Hard 4.0 (2007) - a.f.
The Big Short (2015) - a.f.
Barack Obama
USA
Best movies:
Snowden (2016) - a.f.
Patriots Day (2016) - a.f.
This Must Be the Place (2011)
Slavoj Žižek
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Bliss (2021)
Ivan Martin Jirous
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Václav Moravec
Czechoslovakia
Jan Vyčítal
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
On the Trail of Blood (1969)
Ballad for a Bandit (1978)
Lucy and Miracles (1970)
Miloš Zeman
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Nineties (2022) (series) - a.f.
Candidate (2013)
President Blaník (2018)
Ladislav Smoljak
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Dobytí severního pólu (2006) (theatrical recording)
The Conquest of the North Pole (1987) (theatrical recording)
Dlouhý, Široký a Krátkozraký (1987) (theatrical recording)
Jiří Lábus
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
U Tlučhořů (2010) (theatrical recording)
Joachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)
Tomáš Töpfer
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Záhada (2011) (theatrical recording)
Blboun (2001) (theatrical recording)
Brouk v hlavě (2020) (theatrical recording)
Jiří Krytinář
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Amadeus (1984)
Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
The Three Veterans (1983)
Věra Chytilová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Mirek Topolánek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
President Blaník (2018)
Jan Fischer
Czechoslovakia