{"id":38309,"date":"2022-02-08T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/?post_type=novinka&p=38309"},"modified":"2024-08-14T10:54:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T08:54:37","slug":"berlinale-talents-michal-blasko","status":"publish","type":"novinka","link":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/news\/berlinale-talents-michal-blasko\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlinale Talents: Michal Bla\u0161ko"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWhile the Berlinale presents films in every form, the Talents programme dissects the way they are made and the way of seeing the world from a different perspective<\/em>,\u201d the Berlinale Talents programme description reads. This year, Slovakia will be represented by Michal Bla\u0161ko, a young director finishing his fiction debut Victim<\/a><\/em>. He will also present his miniseries Suspicion<\/em> at the Berlinale Co-Production Market as part of the Co-Pro Series platform.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are currently finishing the post-production of my feature debut <\/em>Victim, and I am also shooting the last two episodes of the crime series <\/em>Major Case Squad. In the meantime, I started preparing two more feature projects I will be directing \u2013 <\/em>Guilt<\/a> and <\/em>Cowgirl<\/a>,\u201d said Bla\u0161ko to Film.sk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development programme Berlinale Talents<\/a> has been taking place since 2003. It consists of workshops, lectures, meetings, discussions with renowned filmmakers, and of course, screenings. Last year was the first time it took place virtually. 3000 filmmakers from all around the world applied, 200 were selected. Slovakia was represented by Barbora Berez\u0148\u00e1kov\u00e1 and Mat\u00fa\u0161 Kraj\u0148\u00e1k.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This edition\u2019s Slovak representative, Michal Bla\u0161ko, has already stirred up interest a few years ago with Atlantis, 2003<\/em> (2017), his bachelor film made at V\u0160MU that was selected for the Cin\u00e9fondation student competition of the Cannes festival. Later, he was searching for support of his fiction debut Victim <\/em>at the Cin\u00e9fondation \u2013 L\u2019Atelier programme. The film won the Works in Progress TRT Award at Karlovy Vary last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victim <\/em>is the story of a Ukrainian single mom Irina that lives in a small Czech town with her son. \u201cVia an intimate portrait of Irina, I would like to expose the society Irina became a temporary mascot to, the society she ultimately caricatures. Authenticity and civility are the characterising elements in the narration of our story. That is why I and the DoP Adam Mach decided for the most authentic, dynamic, and yet aesthetically appealing form of narration in which we as viewers relate to Irina, and as the story progresses, we will be getting to know her son,\u201d<\/em> the director said about the upcoming debut he worked on with screenwriter Jakub Medveck\u00fd. In the film, Irina stands up for her son who was allegedly brutally beaten by some Roma people. She demands justice and feels that her community really supports her. Is her son telling the truth, though?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Czech Television\u2019s three-part mini series Suspicion<\/em>, directed by Bla\u0161ko, also works with the motif of suspicion being immediately mistaken for guilt. The series is co-produced by ARTE television and nutprodukce of Jakub Viktor\u00edn, a Slovak who is also producing Bla\u0161ko\u2019s debut. The auditions took almost a year, Czech actress Kl\u00e1ra Mel\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 will play the leading role. \u201cEven at the auditions, Kl\u00e1ra was sitting in front of us with her poker face and we really could not tell whether she was an innocent woman or a murderer. We knew that if she could do this to the viewers throughout the entire series, we would have hit the jackpot because they would be constantly reassessing whether they liked or did not like her,\u201d<\/em> said Bla\u0161ko when presenting the mini series at the Karlovy Vary festival last year, where the first part of the trilogy premiered exclusively in the last weeks of summer. Mel\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 portrays a nurse whose life turns upside down when she is accused of murdering a patient. Even though it is merely a suspicion at the moment, everyone pretty much takes for granted that she actually did it. Just because she is grumpy in temper and her approach to patients lacks empathy. \u201cThe mini series thematizing the importance of the presumption of innocence and the difference between truth and a notion is, contrarily to its local environment, close to Scandinavian detective stories,\u201d<\/em> Martin Kudl\u00e1\u010d wrote in Film.sk after the first episode premiered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The screenplay was written by \u0160tep\u00e1n Hul\u00edk, the author of successful mini series for HBO Europe awarded with Czech Lions \u2013 Wasteland <\/em>(2016, dir. Ivan Zachari\u00e1\u0161, Alice Nellis), or Burning Bush<\/em> (2013, dir. Agnieszka Holland) focusing on the self-immolation of Jan Palach. \u201cUnlike Jan Palach\u2019s deed, this story\u2019s strength lies in its ability to be generalised, not in its uniqueness<\/em>,\u201d said \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1n Hul\u00edk about Suspicion. \u201cQuestions of the truth, lies, blends of those two, and whether the line between them has not become completely blurred yet, are highly topical<\/em>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text: Mat\u00fa\u0161 Kvasni\u010dka
Source: Film.sk Berlinale Edition 2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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