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Slepý Gulliver

2017-03-23 cs
Documentary
One of the most striking contemporary Czech film-makers and literary figures, twice over winner of the Magnesia Litera Award, Martin Rysavý, is himself the central character of his new, philosophically tinged travelogue. He takes part in the Ukrainian Maidan, takes the Trans-Siberian Express across Russia, sails down the Kolyma river, comes across nomadic reindeer herdsmen, soldiers, mystics, artists and scholars. He tries to comprehend the present situation of two feuding countries of the former Soviet empire. The film's framework forms the director's conversation with a Prague optician, Jakub Thuri, shot during the director's check-up. Using travel materials on top, it allows a peep inside a traveller's consciousness wandering in recollections and trails of sensory perceptions from expeditions to far-away lands and finding a way how to grasp them, put them in order and pass them on.

Director

Martin Ryšavý

Screenplay

Martin Ryšavý

Dramaturgy

Vít Janeček

Director of Photography

Martin Ryšavý

Editor

Anna Ryndová

travel

Status

Released

Countries

  • Czech Republic

Companies

  • Background Films
  • Česká televize