Year Of The Devil

Nohavica, a dated Czech folk singer, sees the opportunity to tour with a funeral band as means to escape a galloping alcoholism. The party is joined by Jan, a decadent Dutch filmmaker, also on the sauce, making a documentary about AA as an excuse to cure himself, and Plfhal, guitar player and close friend of Nohavica, now a voluntary mute after an existential break down in a TV-studio. Together they embark on an inner journey to their own private wasteland. In Year of the Devil, Czech filmmaker Petr Zelenka fuses fiction with documentary, shaky spontaneous hand camera with carefully structured mise-en-scenes, to tell the arranged tale of a handful of different real life fortunes all trying to cope with the limits of modern life and find ''their own melody''. Zelenkas aesthetic blend corresponds his thematic aspirations in a natural way. The film combines an absurd and understated humour with poetic gasps at our desperate need to create meaning in life, either through abuse or religious devices. In life's chaos, where all people have ''the genes of an extra-terrestrial race within them'', order is brought to us by priests or poets. Or the lyrics and appearance of Nohavica. NlKLAS SALMOSE

Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Orig. titel
Rok Dabla: Medverkande
Jaromir Nohavica, Cechomor,: Producent
Pavel Strnad: Manus
Petr Zelenka: Foto
Miro Gâbor: Musik
Jaromir Nohavica: Talat språk
Czech