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Champions (2004)
Directed by Marek Najbrt
Drama · 1h 23m
Ice hockey is a Czech national obsession, and the country's victory over Russia in the 1969 World Championships, the year following the Soviet invasion, is a celebrated moment in its history. In Marek Najbrt's black comedy, the heroic exploits take place only on a black and white tv screen as a group of representative misfits gather and watch the game in a desolate village on the Czech border. While consisting of recognisable types, Najbrt's bleak portrait reveals a world of alcoholism, debt, racism, bigotry, and infidelity that trails behind the dreams of nationalism and bears little resemblance to the fantasies of the new consumerism. A clever and multi-levelled film, it provides a sharp antidote to the reconciliatory charms of the conventional Czech comedy.
Cast
Jan Budař
Klára Melíšková
Jiří Ornest
Crew
- Director
- Marek Najbrt
- Screenplay
- Marek Najbrt, Benjamin Tuček, Robert Geisler
- Director of Photography
- Miloslav Holman
- Editor
- Pavel Hrdlička
- Producer
- Pavel Strnad, Milan Kuchynka
Details
- Original title
- Mistři
- Release date
- 2004-04-01
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czech Republic
- Production
- Negativ, Česká televize, Barrandov Studio