19-07-2012

Hrebejk, Ondricek Films Headed to Cinemas

By FNE Staff

    {mosimage}PRAGUE: The Czech fall film season will get off to an early strong start with films by Jan Hrebejk and David Ondricek scheduled for end-of-summer theatrical releases.

    Hřebejk's Svatá čtveřice (which loosely translates as "Holy Quarternity," a play on the Holy Trinity) will be released on 23 August 2012 by Bontinfilm (www.bontonfilm.cz). The drama was written by leading Czech novelist and sometimes screenwriter Michal Viewegh and is produced by Slovak producer Rudolf Biermann's IN Film Praha (www.infilm.cz). Hřebejk's Divided We Fall (2000) was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The director has been averaging nearly one film annually for the past ten years.


    Next up will be David Ondříček's serious drama In the Shadows, set in 1950's communist Czechoslovakia and starring Ivan Trojan. The director is also a cowriter of the script and producer through his company Lucky Man Films (www.luckymanfilms.com), in coproduction with Poland (with funding from the Polish Film Institute, www.pisf.pl) and Slovakia (Trigon Production. www.trigon-production.sk). The film opens in Czech cinemas on 13 August 2012, distributed by Falcon (www.falcon.cz). The director, who made his name with a pair of Gen X films in the late 1990's, is the son of multiple Oscar-nominated cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček.