In the Rays of Sun is a Czech/Russian/German coproduction from Simone Baumann, Remunda, Vit Klusak, and Natalya Manskya, directed by Vitaly Mansky. Mansky has unprecedented access to film in North Korea, with access to the daily life and the homes of the citizens. He shows the daily life from the perspective of an eight-year-old Korean schoolgirl, the only child of a North Korean couple. The film has completed some six weeks of shooting, and Mansky will return to complete shooting in winter. Post-production will be done at Czech TV in early 2015, and the film will be released in June 2015.
Baumann told FNE that the budget of the film is 280,000 EUR, with 100,000 EUR coming from Russia, 80,000 EUR coming from Germany (30,000 EUR from MDR and 50,000 EUR from MDM Fund), 40,000 EUR from the Czech Film Fund, and 40,000 EUR from Czech TV.
Remunda’s second film Gajdo was directed and filmed by Tomas Kratochvil over the course of a year living in a Romany (Gypsy) ghetto, where a non-Romany are known as a “gajdo.” He moves to the ghetto after his wife leaves him and celebrates his 30th birthday there with his Romany and his white families, his Romany “family” being a clan of former mobsters. The footage includes scenes of anti-Roma marches where the director tries to discover the motivations of those involved.
Kratochvil and Remunda said the film was shot reportage style but the end product will employ a creative editing style. The film received 600,000 CZK from the Czech Film Fund and negotiations are underway with Czech TV.
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