It is yet another time this year for Šmíd and Ludwigs to see their films included in an international film festival programme or its competition. Besides the two, there will be other East European documentaries competing among the 24 selected in Huesca short doc section: 3 Dni Wolnosci (dir. Lukasz Borowski, Poland), Decrescendo (dir. Marta Minorowicz, Poland), Ziamlia (dir. Victor Asliuk, Belarus), Zvezdana Prašina (dir. Vladimir Perović, Serbia).
40th Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca
June 9 - 16, 2012, Huesca, Spain
Chronicle of Oldřich S.
Director: Šmíd Rudolf
Producer: Halousková Marcela, Hora Jakub
Production company: AniFest - International Festival of Animated Films, Anima Production
Kronika Oldřicha S. , Czech Republic, 2011, 18 min, DVD, HD, Animated, History, Personal View, Politics, Social Issues
Mr Sedláček was writing one-sentence entries in his chronicle from 1981 to 2005. The chronicle includes everyday stories of his and his family's life (Today our Gypsy neighbour Gina broke my hand. I was taken to hospital in Mladá Boleslav), the life of the village and its surroundings (A man called Bartoš, 32 years old, killed his wife, 30, today in Příšovice and threw her body into the pond) as well as international events (L.I. Brezhnev died today). The real chronicle has more than two thousand daily notes. The authors picked two hundred and used about eighty of them for the screenplay. These eighty notes provide a concentrated overview of Mr. Sedláček's life and of our society. English voiceover by Jan Triska will be available soon.
East Silver / East Silver Caravan 2012
Leonid's Story
Director: Ludwigs Rainer
Producer: Ludwigs Rainer
Production company: IMAGE-BUILDING
Istoriya Leonida , Germany, Ukraine, 2011, 19 min, DVD, Animated, Environmental, History, Human Rights
A Soviet family searching for a modest paradise is swept into an immense disaster. Chernobyl 1986. Leonid grew up in the village next to the reactor. The film comprehends the development of this world disaster through the destiny of the protagonist and his family. The small episodes reconstruct the emotional dimension of the tragedy: The children who run to the burning reactor, getting a look at the spectacular drama, the unsuspecting village people in the surrounded area, the animals which remain behind after the evacuation, and the helpless tries of mankind to eliminate the impact of the nuclear disaster, accompanied by the faceless Soviet system. In the end there is a happy ending: The triumph of life over the disaster.
