The 104-minute film features Czech actor Ivan Trojan (Loners; Želary; The Karamazovs) in the lead role as Oliver, a lonely forty-something air traffic controller who occupies his time by watching TV and observing the family living in the house across the street, whom he views as an ideal of happiness.
"The idea
for the film came to my mind as I was looking through the window at a friend's
place in one of Bratislava's residential neighbourhoods," Krištúfek told FNE. "I
was struck by how people living in these blocks-of-flats are so close, and yet
so far away from each other."
As the director added, the movie is deliberately minimalistic in its use of dialogue and the stylised use of noises "polluting our environment."
Visible World, shot over 26 days in the winter of 2009 and the autumn of 2010, is a co-production between JMB Film & TV Production (www.jmbfilm.sk) and Slovak Television (www.stv.sk). The film, budgeted at €1,181,000, received€508,000 from the Slovak Audiovisual Fund (www.avf.sk), and will be released in Slovak cinemas in August 2011.
Contact
details:
JMB Film & TV Production
Tvarožkova 8
811 03 Bratislava, Slovakia
Phone: +421 907 475 986
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Slovak TV
Mlynská dolina
845 45 Bratislava, Slovakia
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