Completed - CZECH - Comedy - 110 minutes
Frank Kostka’s family has flown in from New York to Czech Republic to take over their noble family’s Bohemian seat – Kostka Castle. There they meet a backward caretaker, Josef, a jovial housekeeper, Mrs. Tichá, and the hypochondriac maintenance man Lebeau.
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Jiří VEJDĚLEK Writer(s) : Jiří VEJDĚLEK, Tereza DUSOVÁ Cast : Hynek ČERMÁK, Tatiana DYKOVÁ, Eliška BALZEROVÁ, Martin PECHLÁT, Yvona STOLAŘOVÁ, Vojtěch KOTEK, Zdeněk PIŠKULA, Tatiana PAUHOFOVÁ Producer(s) : Silvie MICHAJLOVA (Evolution Films), Ondřej ZIMA (Evolution Films), Pavel BERČÍK (Evolution Films), Zuzana MISTRÍKOVÁ (PubRes), Ľubica ORECHOVSKÁ (PubRes)
Native New Yorker Frank (Hynek Čermák) has reacquired his noble family’s ancient Bohemian seat – Kostka Castle, which he has not visited in 40 years. And so, he gets ready to make a glorious homecoming with his daughter, Maria (Yvona Stolařová), and temperamental wife, Vivien (Tatiana Dyková). But the newly minted aristocrats have no knowledge of local custom or the ins-and-outs of the 1990s Czech Republic, and all they know of castle life comes from their relatives’ age-old yarns. The family arrives with their lawyer, Benda (Vojtěch Kotek), only to discover that Kostka is in a state of gradual decline and cut off from the world around it. Its only permanent inhabitants are a backward caretaker, Josef (Martin Pechlát), a jovial housekeeper, Mrs. Tichá (Eliška Balzerová), and the hypochondriac maintenance man Krása (Pavel Liška). As the castle personnel slowly awakes from the heavy slumber of the post-revolution 90s, the Kostka family faces the difficult decision of whether to move back to America and sell the generations-old castle, or try to save it. A film based on the book of the same name by Evžen Boček.
Country(ies) : CZECH REPUBLIC