Films / Film detail
Dead Beetle
CZ, 1998, 97min.?
This feature debut FROM Pavel Marek, the much acclaimed creator of surrealistic short films, is a bluntly comic description of a young man in crisis. After a short stay at a psychiatric hospital he throws away a burgeoning relationship with a… More
Synopsis
This feature debut FROM Pavel Marek, the much acclaimed creator of surrealistic short films, is a bluntly comic description of a young man in crisis. After a short stay at a psychiatric hospital he throws away a burgeoning relationship with a mentally traumatized girl for no sane reason. The film overcame its own tame cinematographic treatment by eliciting a convincing portrayal of the pathology of 'lost energy' evinced by the Generation X protagonist.
| Director | Pavel Marek |
|---|---|
| Screenwriter | Pavel Marek |
| Story | Pavel Marek |
| Director of photography | Diviš Marek |
| Editor | Alois Fišárek |
| Sound | Jan Čeněk |
| Featuring | Jan Zuska, Pavla Jirásková, Martin Ježek, Ondřej Malý, Monika Černošková, Jiří Macháček, Hana Seidlová |
| Producer | Pavel Melounek, Marek Brodský, David Prudký, Ondřej Šrámek, Jan Lederer |
| Genre | Feature |
| Production Companies | Whisconti |
| Distribution in Czech Republic | Bontonfilm |
| Sales | ČT – Telexport |
| Co-production | Krátký Film Praha, Česká televize |
| Premiere | 26.02.1998 |
| Award: | IFF Soči 1998 (Russia) – Special Prize of the Jury, Avanca International Film, Television and Multimedia Festival (Portugal) 1999 – main prize |
