Můj strýček Archimedes
Directed by:
George AgathonikiadisCinematography:
Petr HojdaComposer:
Aleš BřezinaCast:
Ondřej Vetchý, Miroslav Donutil, Dana Černá, Veronika Freimanová, Tadeáš Štourač, Petr Štěpán, Stanislav Zindulka, Tomáš Töpfer, Jiří Dvořák, Ivan Lupták (more)Plots(1)
A comedy about a Greek migrant who came to Czechoslovakia in the late 1940s to flee his country’s civil war and found a new home here. The story is told through the eyes of the now adult Aris, Archimedes’ nephew, who recalls how the escape from Greece changed his uncle’s life. Soon after his arrival Archimedes find great support in his neighbor Novák, whose bitter attitude to the Communist regime Archimedes at first fails to comprehend, though he likes him very much. Ultimately, however, he is the only one who understands him. Their joint efforts to help Archimedes settle in Czechoslovakia, and subsequent efforts to help him return to Greece, lead to charming, moving and comic situations. (Tiburon International Film Festival)
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Many new TV films have extreme promotions... The result is awkward at best. And then seemingly from nowhere appears My Uncle Archimedes, a pleasantly human spectacle with a perfect central pair that could easily have been another burdensome communist drama, but fortunately, it is not. It endeavored to be a comedy, it has meticulously written dialogues and lighthearted escape scenes almost like from 'Allo 'Allo!, and thus the endeavor paid off.
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