The Czech Republic submitted "Rodinny film"
(English captions) to the 2016 Seattle International Film Festival. As
this black dramedy unfolds, we follow a couple that leaves on their
dream vacation (they left the children alone) but are lost at sea.
Writer/director
Olmo
Omerzu, working with Nebojsa Pop Tasic, has created this award-winning
drama which shows us what children, adults (and a dog), do when things
come apart. We only hear that the parents are shipwrecked. The scenes of the dog battling the waves at sea are
particularly harrowing!
His cast:
- Karel Roden - Igor is the papa. He's planned this vacation with his adored wife for a long time. I'm not sure why they took the family dog.
- Vanda Hybnerová - Irena is looking forward to the vacation and she trusts her children to behave in their parents' absence.
- Daniel Kadlec - Their son Erik is curious about everything, as any 15-year-old boy should be.
- Eliska Krenkova - Older sister Kristýna is trying to sort out some information she didn't want.
- Jenovéfa Boková - Her lovely friend Anna is enigmatic but the more we see of her, the less we trust her. Check out her new version of "Spin the bottle!"
- Martin Pechlát - Uncle Martin is the sort of man that women do not flock to!
- I don't know who plays the dog but Otto is brilliantly directed. I've never seen a dog get so tangled up in underbrush but continue to seek a way out. And you can SEE his nose twitch when he recognizes an odor.
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