Shadow of The Deceased
feature/drama + tv serie (4 x 70´)
Screenplay: Vladimír Körner, Director: Milan Cieslar
The theme of a woman’s fate set against the background of a historical situation is related in a way, not least because of its historical content, to the previous work of both film-makers Pramen života or Spring of Life (Berlinale 2000, it also received the main prize at international film festivals in 2001 - Troia, Laon, Gottbus, Rimouski, Chemnitz, it was also shown at others such as IFF Montreal,Shanghai, Jerusalem, AFI Los Angeles, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach), plus to the author’s screenplay Anděl milosrdenství or Angel of Mercy (Prix Europa 1994) or to the well-known cult film Adelheid from the director Vláčil that was made at the end of the 1960s.
Here the events are split into the four different seasons of the year, against the backdrop of little known periods in European history, about which little is ever said. These are merely the background and a distant echo for this chamber, but strongly poetic tale, which takes place for the most part in a backwater of the Moravian-Silesian Hills.
Synopsis
Shadow of The Deceased