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Polski film

“The fact that I’m playing myself doesn’t mean that it’s me.” Four old schoolmates, today well-known Czech actors (Pavel Liška, Tomáš Matonoha, Josef Polášek and Marek Daniel), decide to make a movie together. Their ambitious colleague Jan Budař takes up directing duties and financing has arrived from Poland. What started out pleasantly enough, however, soon goes awry. Liška’s pronunciation difficulties, Daniel’s alter ego Havlát, and Matonoha’s financial machinations turn the shoot into a fight for survival. More than just a film about friendship and the absurdity of actors’ lives, director Marek Najbrt gives us a witty meditation on reality and illusion, and a unique take on the reality film genre. One of Pavel Liška’s on-set comments (“I didn’t know if I should act as if I were acting, or act as if I weren’t acting, or just not act at all”) illustrates the provocative nature of Najbrt’s subversive, quasi-documentary game.

2012 |1h 53m |  Drama, Comedy

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Cast

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Marek Daniel

Daniel

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Pavel Liška

Liška

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Tomáš Matonoha

Matonoha

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Josef Polášek

Polášek

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Katarzyna Zawadzka

Kasia

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Jan Budař

Budař

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Krzysztof Czeczot

producer

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Jana Plodková

production manager

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Status

Released

Language

Czech, Polish

Budget

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