Wedding Gift
Milan Kohout / 1983 / The film already had its Czech Premiere / 4 min.
synopsis
Kohout conceived his gift for Jiří Dvorský’s wedding as a caricature of a bachelor entering the yoke of marital duties. This parodic commentary, written in the style of 19th-century poetry, plays on the contrast between the high and the low, the sublime and the mundane, against the backdrop of a stereotypical socialist family.biography
Milan Kohout (1955) is a performer, actor, director and visual artist and was a prominent cultural figure in Pilsen in the 1980s, where he developed a number of cultural projects straddling the boundaries of film, theatre, music and performance. From the mid-1980s, he was active in the Prague dissident movement. After emigrating in 1987, he worked in the USA as an artist and university lecturer.film details
| director: | Milan Kohout |
| cast: | Daniel Kohout, Milan Kohout, Ivana Kohoutová |
| producer: | Martin Blažíček |
| photography: | Jiří Dvorský |
| editing: | Jiří Dvorský, Milan Kohout |
| sound: | Jiří Dvorský |
Screening time
Saturday 24. 10. 2026, 16:30
Kino Dukla – Edison
Film at festival
| premiere type: | The film already had its Czech Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2026 |
| section: | Into History |
| language: | Czech |
| subtitles: | No Subtitles |
| colour: | Black and white |
Info
| director: | Milan Kohout |
| original title: | Svatební dar |
| year: | 1983 |
| running time: | 4 min. |
