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The Dangerous World of Doctor Doleček (Czech version)

director: Kristýna Bartošová

original title: Nebezpečný svět Rajka Dolečka

country: Czech Republic

year: 2015

running time: 72 min.

synopsis

Kristýna Bartošová has approached the genre of documentary film portraits as a battlefield. This director, who has Bosnian roots, chose to film the story of the Czech doctor Rajko Doleček, who is a very enthusiastic defender of Ratko Mladić, the Serbian general accused of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. In this undeniably moving work, shot with a hand-held camera with no attempt to conceal the presence of the film’s creators, the director, at first cautiously, but with increasing intensity, confronts Doleček about his controversial stance. At the same time, she must come to terms with the doctor’s unshakeable opinion.

DETAIL:
“I wanted to present a portrait of someone who denies genocide. When I first met Doleček, I thought it would be easy to condemn him. But is it not always easier to judge someone you do not know personally?”

biography

The director, a student of the Documentary Film Department at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), has thus far created only a small number of short films within the context of her studies. She participated in the collective project Big as Brno (2011) with a group of other documentary filmmakers. Her student film Darkness under the Lamp (2012), about the tension between the Roma minority and the white majority in a town near Hradec Králové was nominated for the Pavel Koutecký Award. Her documentary Beetles (2011) follows the blockade to prevent the felling of trees in the Bohemian Forest.

more about film

director:	Kristýna Bartošová
producer:	Kristýna Hněvsová, Dagmar Sedláčková, Tomáš Michálek, Petr Kubica, Ondřej Šejnoha, Michal Křeček
script:	Kristýna Bartošová
photography:	Kristýna Bartošová
editing:	Šimon Hájek
music:	Jakub Rataj
sound:	Lukáš Ujčík

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