Saving One Who Was Dead
TITLE
Saving One Who Was Dead
DIRECTOR
Václav Kadrnka
COUNTRY
Czech Republic, Slovakia, France
YEAR
2021
DURATION
89′
GENRE
Feature Film
Saving One Who Was Dead
After a serious stroke, the Father goes into a coma. The Son and the Mother are suddenly confronted by a motionless body. The person they love is somewhere far away and nobody knows whether he will ever return. The doctors do not give them much hope.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Václav Kadrnka
After graduation at FAMU, he completed Eighty Letters, his full-length feature debut based on his mother´s letters to his father during his emigration from the communist regime. This award-winning film premiered at Berlinale 2011 and traveled around the world. In 2017 he completed his second feature film Little Crusader, an adaptation of a medieval poem by Jaroslav Vrchlicky. The film premiered at Karlovy Vary IFF and won the Grand Prix Crystal Globe. His latest film Saving One Who Was Dead is just before the festival release. Currently he is developing a new feature project Horse Latitudes. In 2021 he and his wife Simona set up the production division Sirius Films Manual, in which they develop the first and second feature films of young film makers. Václav Kadrnka teaches film language at FAMU.
- Director Václav Kadrnka
- Screenplay Václav Kadrnka, Marek Šindelka, Jiří Soukup
- Cinematography Raphaël O’byrne
- Editing Jan Daňhel
- Cast Vojtěch Dyk, Zuzana Mauréry, Petr Salavec
- Producer/s Simona Kadrnková, Václav Kadrnka
- Production Company Sirius Films
- Distributor/s CinemArt
- Project Title Saving One Who Was Dead
- Project Type Feature
- Completion Date January 1, 2021
- Country of origin Czech Republic
- Country of filming Czech Republic
- Language Czech
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
Václav Kadrnka
After graduation at FAMU, he completed Eighty Letters, his full-length feature debut based on his mother´s letters to his father during his emigration from the communist regime. This award-winning film premiered at Berlinale 2011 and traveled around the world. In 2017 he completed his second feature film Little Crusader, an adaptation of a medieval poem by Jaroslav Vrchlicky. The film premiered at Karlovy Vary IFF and won the Grand Prix Crystal Globe. His latest film Saving One Who Was Dead is just before the festival release. Currently he is developing a new feature project Horse Latitudes. In 2021 he and his wife Simona set up the production division Sirius Films Manual, in which they develop the first and second feature films of young film makers. Václav Kadrnka teaches film language at FAMU.
Tirana International Film Festival
Best Director, Václav Kadrnka, 2022
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Nominee for the Best Film, 2021
