CHARLATAN

Director - Agnieszka Holland

Script - Marek Epstein

Camera - Martin Strba

Music - Antoni Lazarkiewicz

Cast - Ivan Trojan, Joachim Paul Assböck, Jan Vlasák, Jana Kvantiková, Juraj Loj

Producers - Sarka Cimbalova, Kevan Van Thompson

Production - Film and Music Entertainment

The breathtaking story of a man gifted with exceptional abilities set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.
The film is based on a story of healer Jan Mikolášek who used his skills and experiences to heal various people including poor or famous personas such as Czechoslovak president Antonín Zápotocký. After Zápotocký's death Mikolášek was imprisoned by Communist regime.

Program

03.10.2020
CINEMA HOUSE - 18.00 часа
04.10.2020
ODEON CINEMA - 20.15 часа
07.03.2021
CINEMA HOUSE - 20.30 часа
10.03.2022
CINEMA HOUSE - 18.00 часа

Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland was born 28 of November 1948 in Warsaw. She went to Czechoslovakia to study film directing at FAMU in Prague. She began her film career working in Poland with Krzysztof Zanussi as assistant director, and Andrzej Wajda as her mentor. She wrote several scripts with Wajda before directing her own films, which were soon winning international acclaim and awards at festivals – in Cannes (FIPRESCI Prize for Provincial Actors in1978), Berlin (nomination for “Golden Bear” for Fever in 1981), Montreal (nomination for the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury for Angry Harvest in 1985), Venice (nomination for “Golden Lion” for Julie Walking Home in 2002). Angry Harvest received a nomination for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Film category in 1986 and Copying Beethoven was nominated for the Golden Seashell award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2006. Holland also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing (screenplay based on material previously produced or published) for Europa Europa. In Darkness was once again nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Film category and received 3 awards (from a total of 10 nominations) at the Polish Film Awards in 2012.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
1979 Provincial Actors
1985 Angry Harvest
1988 To Kill a Priest
1990 Europa, Europa
2011 In Darkness
2019 Mr Jones
2020 Charlatan

CHARLATAN

Czech Republic-Ireland-Slovakia-Poland, 2020, 114′, color, movie

Program

Agnieszka Holland