Active Development:
Episodic Film
Director and Screenplay: Pavel Dražan
DOP: Diviš Marek
Film Editor: Jiří Brožek
Sound: Radim Hladík
Cast: Petr Nárožný, Vítězslav Jandák, Igor Bareš, Oldřich Navrátil, Anna Polívková, Ota Jirák, Petr Brukner, and others
“BOHEMIAN POLICE FILES” is based on several short stories by Jaroslav Hašek that are linked together into one story. They are all tales of people who have gotten into trouble with the law due to a series of unfortunate coincidences.
PLAY IT COOL AND TO THE FULL
Czech Comedy
Director: Josef Abrhám Jr.
Screenplay: Josef Abrhám Jr., Miki Kirschner
Dramaturgy: Alice Nellis, Jan Zajíček
DOP: Tomáš Nováček
Cast: Josef Abrhám, Libuše Šafránková, Vladimír Pucholt, Veronika Žilková, Jiří Bartoška, Jan Kačer, Jitka Schneiderová, Norbert Lichý, Jan Hartl, Luděk Sobota, Pavla Tomicová, Richard Saley
Czech film comedy about life of the famous actor.
His story is the universal destiny - nobody can hide from anything and people are losing privacy. The main character discovers that he has become a commercial commodity. His desire for "civilian” freedom and privacy leads to personal revolt, which speeds up the chain of events. His “quixotic” actions become a Sisyphean sequence of the trials of life resulting in liberating Pyrrhic victory.
Musical
Director: Štěpán FOK Vodrážka
Screenplay: Lumír Tuček
It is about a girl making her way into a world where the main social incentive for people’s actions is to achieve the highest level of insurance and security. Lucy recognizes that this sort of life need not necessarily bring you real happiness. This is freely gained through real, good undistorted relationships.
Compared to similar stories from the 19th or 20th century, where the heroes listened to their heart to the detriment of the call of the farmstead or family factory, here the heroine does not listen to the voice of social, medical and pension security and follows a relationship where in the end, she will be left only with her own child.
Inspiration was found from the successful Czech musicals “Dáma na kolejích/Lady on the Tracks” (a woman alone against everybody) and “Kouř/Smoke” (use of rap or voice band acts as an epic turbo charged motor of events, singing songs expressing lyrical states of mind, moods and feelings).
IGNÁC KAREL HYNEK & NEW ROMANCERS
Documentary
Director: Josef Abrhám Jr.
Script: Josef Abrhám Jr.
Czech poet K.H. Mácha stands at the forefront of modern Czech poetry. Each generation of Czech poets has encountered his work. We are following his extraordinary voyage thru the times. Each era creates his own portrait, stressing just part of his personality and suppressing those features which did not fit to the period illusions. We want to interconnect all his contradictory famous or secret sides of his image and depict him as a very modern personality.
THE OTHER WAY
War Movie
Director: Alessandro Garilli
Screenplay: Alessandro Garilli
In Co-Production with ANGELIKA VISION
Russian Front, january 1943. The 604 Battallion is forced to pass through the steppes to get away from the enemy. But when the night comes only 6 soldiers and a mule advance silently under a snow storm. The extreme weather together with the desperate need of surviving to that white cold desert make the soldiers lose perception of time and, step by step, put them in a dreamlike dimension where the "other way" made of memories and dreams and nightmares lies in front of them.
A long night of war and a voyage into the human condition from birchwoods and mountain lakes to villages on fire, wheat fields in summer and snowy seasides.
Development:
TV Series
- 26 episodes,
- Based on the stories written by Ota Pavel;
- An entertaining European chronicle of the 20th century
- The storyline takes viewers to Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Turkey, the Soviet Union, Romania and Austria
To taste all of life’s riches, we turn to stories about others. The 26 part series LEO POPPER is a story that explores universal themes through the remarkable life of an ordinary man. It is inspired by short tales of the award-winning writer Ota Pavel, who wrote about his father’s adventures. The series spans 7 decades in Europe ravaged by war, revolution, and renewal. But we see it all with unexpected humor and breathtaking cliffhangers.
OLIVETTI - MIGHT OF A DREAM
Biographical Movie
Director: Michele Soavi
Screenplay: Franco Bernini, Silvia NapolitanoCasanova Multimedia Production
Alike Henry Ford in USA and Tomáš Baťa in the Czech Republic, Adriano Olivetti is considered the first Italian "socialist" entrepreneur interested in improvements of his workers' conditions.
This biopic of Adriano Olivetti is spanning throughout his life: from the first time he joined the family business to the international success of the Lettera-22 typewriter and the birth of the first electronic calculator Elea in the late '50s; from the first worker-town with hospitals, kindergartens and cinemas to the incomprehension of his family towards his sky high expectations. The story encompasses a lifelong commitment to a better future for all. This threat to the establishment could not endure too long.
