Long Live Hunting!

director: Jaroslav Kratochvíl

original title: Lovu zdar!

year: 2014

running time: 68 min.

synopsis

Three real hunters lure viewers on an exotic safari, on their search for trophies, and to their deer stands in the woods. With a brisk polka tempo, the film presents various hunting techniques and the protagonists’ varied personal relationships to hunting. The filmmaker sets out after the scent of animals in the greenery, and with hyperbole and exaggerated poeticism shows the entire hunting process from luring the animals to their gutting and final ingestion. This concisely constructed documentary essay takes aim at Czech hunting, but to the hunters it doesn’t make much difference.

DETAIL:
“Today’s city people are so spoiled by their time. They could be traumatized by it internally, but death has always been an integral part of everyday activities and everyday life. To deny the phenomenon of death means creating an artificial view of life. It’s not killing – it’s the deliberate ending of a life.”

biography

Jaroslav Kratochvíl is studying documentary filmmaking at FAMU. His short films The Munich Agreement (2009) and General (2007) explored Czechoslovak history. He worked on the series Children of Stalinism (2009) which dealt with the offspring of political prisoners, and on the TV series Paths of Faith (2010).

more about film

director:	Jaroslav Kratochvíl
producer:	Pavla Janoušková Kubečková
script:	Jaroslav Kratochvíl
photography:	Prokop Souček, Jan Balcar
editing:	Adam Brothánek
sound:	Marek Poledna

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