Clownwise

Czech Republic
Flag: Blue-White-Red
Capital: Prague
Population: 10.52 million

Czech Oscar winning films:

• 1965 – Shop on the Main Street (Obchod na korze, 1965 directed by Jan Kadár and Elmar Klos)
• 1968 – Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky, 1968 directed by Jiří Menzel)
• 1984 – Amadeus (1984, directed by Miloš Forman, at the 57th Academy Awards®, Amadeus won 8 award)
• 1996 – Kolya (1996, directed by Jan Svěrák)

Czech films nominated for Oscar:

• 1987 – My Sweet Little Village (Vesničko má středisková, 1985, directed by Jiří Menzel)
• 2000 – Devided We Fall (Musíme si pomáhat, 2000, directed by Jan Hřebejk, Nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film)
• 2003 – Zelary (Želary, 2003, directed by Ondřej Trojan)

Other influential Czech films: (in alphabetical order based on English title of the film)

• All My Compatriots (Všichni dobří rodáci, 1969, directed by Vojtěch Jasný)
• Conspirators of Pleasure (Spiklenci slasti, 1996, directed by Jan Švankmajer)
• Cosy Dens (Pelíšky, 1999, directed by Jan Hřebejk)
• The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol, 1969, directed by Juraj Herz)
• Daimond of the Night (Démanty noci”, 1964, directed by Jan Němec)
• Daisies (Sedmikrásky,1966, directed by Věra Chytilová)
• Dimensions of Dialogue (Dimenze dialogu, 1982, directed by Jan Švankmajer)
• Firemen’s Ball (Hoří má panenko, 1967, directed by Miloš Forman)
• Intime Lighting (Intimní osvětlení, 1965, directed by Ivan Passer)
• Journey to the Beginning of Time (Cesta do pravěku, 1955, directed by Karel Zeman)
• Larks on a String (Skřivánci na niti,1990, directed by Jiří Menzel)
• Loners (Samotáři, 2000, directed by David Ondříček)
• Loves of a Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky, 1965, directed by Miloš Forman)
• Markéta Lazarová (1967, directed by František Vláčil)
• The Millennial Bee (Tisícoročná včela, 1983, directed by Juraj Jakubisko)
• Valerie and her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden divů, 1970, directed by Jaromil Jireš)

Names of the most famous directors: Miloš Forman, Alexander Hackenschmied, Jan Hřebejk, Věra Chytilová, Jaromil Jireš, Karel Kachyňa,  Jiří Menzel, Ivan Passer , Jan Svěrák, Jan Švankmajer, Jiří Trnka, František Vláčil, Karel Zeman

The official website of Clownwise: http://www.clownwisefilm.com

 

 

 

 

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Oskar, Max and Viktor, once a superstar clown trio split up over a heartbreaking fight. Now they’re paying the price of thirty years of separate grueling lives on and off the stage. Their irresistible sense of humor is challenged by the proxi- mity of the physical end and other joys of old age.

They”˜re about to risk everything to find out whether there really isn”˜t one more show left in them, a re-staging of the famous clownery that launched the group”˜s career while also facing the hardest challenge yet: clowning their way out.

English language title: Clownwise
Original language title: Klauni
Running time: 120 minutes
US rating, if any: /
Director: Viktor Tauš
Producer: Michal Kollar, Viktor Tauš, Donato Rotunno, Jouko Seppala
Screenwriter: Boris Hybner (story), Petr Jarchovský
Principal cast: Michael Ostrowski, Hilde Dalik, Oliver Rosskopf, Holger Schober, Manuel Rubey
Principal cast: Jiří Lábus, Oldřich Kaiser, Didier Flamand, Eva Jeníčková, Kati Outinen, Julie Ferrier
Distributor (include US if any): Latido Films
Production company: Fog’n Desire Films
Year of release in home company: 2013