The Good Driver Smetana
Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda / Czech Republic / 2013 / World Premiere / 77 min.
synopsis
An experiment involving engaged citizen Roman Smetana – the Olomouc bus driver who drew antennae on politicians’ billboards – expanded into an action drama about courage and (Švejk-like) determination. This feature-length film is an expanded version of an episode from the TV documentary series Czech Journal, and an embodiment of exemplary persistence in civic disobedience. In Smetana’s story, his personal convictions, court rulings, and the post-modern era’s media engineering all converge.
In the role of an “ordinary citizen” robbed of 15 minutes of his time by two curious filmmakers, former Minister of Interior Ivan Langer responds with dialectical ease to a simple question: Can you tell the camera that you have never engaged in corruption?
more about film
| director: | Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda |
| producer: | Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda, Petr Kubica |
| editing: | Vit Klusak |
contact
Hypermarket Film s.r.o.
Lenka Stárková
Křemencova 178/10, 110 00 Praha, Czech Republic
lenka@hypermarketfilm.cz
+420 736631005
Film at festival
| premiere type: | World Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2013 |
| section: | Czech Joy |
| format: | Blu-ray |
| language: | Czech |
| subtitles: | English |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda |
| original title: | Dobrý řidič Smetana |
| country: | Czech Republic |
| year: | 2013 |
| running time: | 77 min. |
