DOCUMENTARY FILM BY TOMAS WEINREB

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2 ANNOTATION The film portrays an ever-unhappy, swearing but also pensive necro-ranter who had spent half a year of his life in a romance with a mass-murderer-to-be before her crime. The film shows an aged, resentful being who hasn t lost a sense of humor despite his suffering. The film shows the world as a place, where dividing things into left and right seldom leads to anything worthwhile.

3 DIRECTOR ON FILM I got to know the leading character Miroslav D. when I was doing research for a feature-length film about the life of Olga Hepnarová. Olga Hepnarová was a young woman who lodged herself in the public consciousness by a barbaric act. In 1973 she drove a truck into a group of people, killing eight and badly injuring others. She wanted to take revenge for her miserable life, not on an individual but on people. As she had said, I am a human being who s been destroyed by human beings. First I naturally tried to get out of Miroslav D. as much information about Olga as I could, and about their relationship because Miroslav D. had lived with Olga for six months before her deed. Although, but perhaps for the very reason, that she was a lesbian, Olga Hepnarová regarded Miroslav as her only real friend. I kept asking questions but did not learn much, hardly anything. I got to know Miroslav as a man who kept talking about himself or about his milieu but mostly in relation to himself. Usually very aggressively. I got to know an asocial man, with traumatic childhood and uneasy life. I got to know a sensitive man as well. He struck me as somebody who loves life in spite of all the resentment he feels towards the world, in spite of all the dead bodies he had come across. I coined for him the term necro-palaverer. What I found attractive in his talk was the endeavour not to take sides. Not to lean to one side or the other. I feel in this desire for authentic being, not a tendency to extremism. I decided to make a film dedicated to him. I wanted to make a film about a negative existence bearing a secret he will never divulge. I was intrigued by the fact that although Olga and Miroslav had a similar world view, he would never have done such a thing. There s humour in his griping that keeps him going and keeps him from crossing the thin boundary line of insanity.

4 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION Year: 2009 Shooting format: DVCAM 16:9 Widescreen, Colour Screening format: DigiBETA 16:9 Widescreen, Colour Language: Czech Subtitles: English Type: Documentary Duration: 23 min Direction: Tomas Weinreb School supervision: Rudolf Adler Production: Ladislava Souralova Director of camera: Tomas Weinreb Sound: Martin Zenisek Editor: Tomas Weinreb Cast: Miroslav David Produced by: Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague Web:

5 DISTRIBUTIONS Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague CONTACTS Tomas Weinreb Na Belance 6 Pilsen tel: tomas.weinreb@seznam.cz Vera Hoffmanova / FAMU FAMU Festival Coordinator Klimentska Praque 1 Czech Republic phone+fax: vera.hoffmannova@famu.cz

6 FESTIVALS Famufest 2009 Young Camera Unicov 2010 New York international independent film and video festival 2010 Kontra film festival IFF Karlovy Vary 2010 River film festival Pisek 2010 TELEVISION Czech television 06/2010 SELECTED CINEMA SCREENINGS ART Cinema AERO PRAGUE 04/2010 ART Cinema SVETOZOR PRAGUE - 02/2010

7 TOMAS WEINREB Bio: Tomas Weinreb was born in 1982 in Stod nearby Pilsen (Czech rep.). He started to make films on your own. Then he studied Documentary film on FAMU Prague. He interests partly in documentary film, partly in fiction film. He doesn_t want to close eyes before misery of the world, but on other hand he wants to search passion and hope. He is going to make debut with Peter Kazda about solitude of 22 year old mass murderer named Olga Hepnarová.

8 TOMAS WEINREB FILMOGRAPHY ANTERO 20min., documentary, experimental 2003 Film festival FINALE Pilsen 2004, Czech rep. Summer school festival Uherske Hradiste 2004, Czech rep. STORY OF UNBORN CHILD 8min., documentary, experimental 2005 / student film IDFF Jihlava 2005, Czech rep. FAMUFEST 2005, Czech rep. ECLIPSE 11min., short 2006 / student film FAMUFEST 2005, Czech rep. MANY WOMEN AND MANY MEN 27min., documentary, footage film 2009 / student film Film festival FINALE Pilsen official documentary competition, Czech rep. Con-Can JAPAN 2009 finalist I&ME 12min., short 2009 / student film FAMUFEST 2009, Czech rep. YOUNG CAMERA UNICOV 2010, Czech rep. NEISSE film festival 2010, Germany Kontra film festival IFF Karlovy DOCUMENTARY Vary 2010, Czech FILM rep. BY TOMAS WEINREB