November 1, 2011 at 7pm in Dey Hall Room 402
Submitted for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008, the Czech film The Brothers Karamazov (2008), directed by award-winning Czech playwright and director of theatre and film Petr Zelenka, follows a theatre company from Prague as it arrives in Kraków to present a stage adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel at the city’s alternative drama festival; the production is to be staged in an unusual venue – the local steelworks. As rehearsals get under way, we follow not only the emotional story examining issues of faith, immortality and the salvation of the human soul, but also the relationships within the acting troupe itself, which strangely reflect Dostoevsky’s “great” themes. The stage drama is transferred to the real world when a tragedy occurs during rehearsal involving one of the spectators.
The DVD is in Czech (and some Polish) with English subtitles. The film is 100 minutes long.
