
Keywords
- Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
- Label: Darling Berlin
- Made in Germany
- Screen: Germany
- Young Talent
- Aging
- mumblecore
Actors
- Peter Kurth
- Johann Jürgens
- Helena Dvoráková
- Lana Cooper
- Petr Vrsek
Director
- Štěpán Altrichter
Independent, Comedy
1h 38min
16+
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What should have been a ordinary job in the Czech Ore Mountains, becomes a mysterious expedition for the aging engineer Julius Schmitke.
What should have been a ordinary job in the Czech Ore Mountains, becomes a mysterious expedition for the aging engineer Julius Schmitke.
Czech Lion winner SCHMIDKE - a journey into the mind of an unfortunate man - is set in the fog of the Erzgebirge Mountains in the Czech Republic is a story set somewhere between comedy and mystery.
Directors note: The film is based on a short story by the writer and screenwriter Tomáš Končinský entitled “Julius Schmitke slipped through death’s fingers like an awkward seal”, which immediately captured my interest. It is a story set somewhere between comedy and mystery, somewhere in the fog of the Ore Mountains, full of the atmosphere of this mysterious stretch of land, its history and its people.