Hymz | ©2018 | CZ – SK | 98 min. | fictionanimation | absurd | comedy | surreal

Insect

Director
Jan Švankmajer
Producer
Jaromír Kallista, Zuzana Mistríková, Ľubica Orechovská
Story
Jan Švankmajer
Screenplay
Jan Švankmajer
DoP
Jan Růžička, Adam Oľha
Editor
Jan Daňhel
Sound
Ivo Špalj
Costumes
Veronika Hrubá
Synopsis

A local pub in a small town. It’s Monday and the bar is closed, the chairs are stacked upside down on the tables. The pub is empty except for six amateur actors sitting in a corner. They’ve met to rehearse “The Insect Play” by the Čapek brothers. On a raised platform across the room we see a stage, arranged for Act II of the play. As the rehearsal progresses, the characters of the play are born and die, with no regard to time. The actors slowly become one with them and some of them undergo frightening transformations…

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Director
Jan Švankmajer
Producer
Jaromír Kallista, Zuzana Mistríková, Ľubica Orechovská
Story
Jan Švankmajer
Screenplay
Jan Švankmajer
DoP
Jan Růžička, Adam Oľha
Editor
Jan Daňhel
Sound
Ivo Špalj
Costumes
Veronika Hrubá
Cast
Jaromír Dulava, Kamila Magálová, Jiří Lábus, Ivana Uhlířová, Norbert Lichý, Jan Budař
Production
Athanor (CZ)
Co-production
PubRes (SK), Česká televize (CZ)
Budget
1 628 000 €
Support
Audiovizuálny fond, MEDIA Programme, Státní fond kinematografie, Eurimages
World premiere
Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018, The Netherlands
Release
SK: 03/2018, PubRes | CZ: 02/2018, CinemArt
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