Father

In production Latest update: 02 May 2024

Father
Otec

Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland / 90 min / Czech, Slovak
Fiction

In production Latest update: 02 May 2024

Father
Otec

Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland / 90 min / Czech, Slovak
Fiction

A story about a man who realizes too late that the daughter he dropped off at nursery is actually still locked in the back of the car...

A story about a man who has everything - a loving wife, a daughter, a company... until one hot summer day when everything changes. Hours after dropping off his infant daughter at the nursery, his wife calls in a panic, saying their child is missing. The man rushes to his car, only to find his daughter locked in the backseat, lifeless. He collapses to the ground, losing his sense of space and time. He remembers dropping her off! How could this have happened? Later, he discovers that he had suffered from 'Forgotten Baby Syndrome,' a memory failure with fatal consequences, which has caused hundreds of similar tragedies around the world. However, the court finds him guilty and gives him to a suspended sentence for manslaughter. But how can he carry on? His wife refuses any explanation. Her daughter is dead. There is nothing more to say. She breaks up with him. His company falls apart. His closest friends call him a murderer. He continues to exist but feels dead... Things take a turn when his wife returns. She wants a new life, a new child with him. Together, they slowly begin to recover. Only until one early winter morning...

Cast / Milan Ondrík , Dominika Morávková , Anna Geislerová    Costumes / Aneta Grňáková    Dop / Adam Suzin    Editor / Nikodem Chabior    Make up / Vladimír Wittgruber    Music / Pjoni    Set designer / Nina Feriancová    Sound / Ivan Horák , Marek Hart    Story / Dušan Budzak    Writer / Tereza Nvotová , Dušan Budzak

Completion date / January 2025

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