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The Second Death of Joan of Arc was introduced on the international film festival Stage Crossroad in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and it was awarded with a prestigious prize.
Cast: Vilma Cibulkova, Ladislav Mrkvicka, Stanislav Lehky
Direction and translation: Svetlana Lazarova
Stage desing:: Jakub Vinklar
Music: Matěj Vasicek
Costumes: Jozefina Garailova, Nina Klestilova
Graphic advisor: Jana Jisova
Janette, an amateur theater actress, is presented with a choice – “to crawl and live, or to stand straight and die.” On her journey of spiritual change she is becoming “Joan” and her own “creator”. God and the executioner, who support Janette in her crucial change, are also very strange. God turns out to be a poor, pathetic and pacifistic old man who loathes everything there is around. The executioner is very altruistic and humane in his bloody job. This whole flashback of the crucial moment of one, already mythologized death, makes us realize that you have to ripen to be a hero.
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Translation: Michal Kotrous
Direction: Svetlana Lazarova
Cast: Otmar Brancuzsky
“I am dead and I feel wonderful!” A play that begins so can’t be boring. A waiting of a dead believer for his Angel who would bring him to God does not lack distinctive aspects of humor. It is a tragicomical contemplation of a man who’d already been nailed in the coffin during his life, having lived dedicated to God, but somehow not having “lived” at all…
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The vast mountain range of Rhodope in the southern Bulgaria belongs among those places on planet that one may call magical. Since the ancient times to this day, different cultures and religions have been living alongside one another, Orpheus’ songs are sung as well as the current folklore, and prayers addressed to many gods may be whooshing through the air. In this day, when the harmony of co-living has been substantially disturbed, we find the connection to nature, that has never been forgotten in these parts.
It is a picture about the world as perceived by our ancestors and in its original folder.
The Magic of Rhodope Mountains is a trilogy about both the “magic” and reality that surrounds it.
This movie shows problems of this disease by interviews with doctors and presenting personal stories of the disease victims.
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Available versions: Czech, Bulgarian, French, English
Length: 57 min, Screenplay: Svetlana Lazarova, Cinematographer: Miroslav Kousal, Sound: Jiri Mach, Editing: Allan Lazarov, Music: Marketa Mazourova, Producent: Allan Lazarov
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Available in Czech, Length: 48 min
Screenplay: Michael Otrisal, Cinematography: Michael Otrisal, Sound: Michael Otrisal, Petr Marsik, Editing: Allan Lazarov: Allan Lazarov, Director: Michael Otrisal
Cast:Min. Stanislav Pribyl, Min. Tomasz Wascinnski, Milan Kupkar, Min. Jiri Sindelar, Prof. Petr Pitha, Min. Peter Benes
Ordered by the town of Svata hora
(see photos) upA story about a young Bulgarian bohemist Bojka Dobreyova-Hoffmann (1975 – 2007) whilst in the Czech Republic
Available in Czech, Bulgarian, Length: 57 min
Screenplay: Svetlana Lazarova, Cinematography and editing: Allan Lazarov, Music: Marketa Mazourova, Director:Svetlana Lazarova
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Available in Czech, Length: 20 min
Screenplay: Svetlana Lazarova, Cinematography: Miroslav Kousal, Sound: Jiri Mach, Editing: Allan Lazarov, Music: Marketa Mazourova, Director: Svetlana Lazarova
(full text) (see photos) upAbout the art project Mobility, presented at the Trienale, co-worked on by institutions from five countries: Czech Republic, Poland Finland, Bulgaria and Portugal
Available in Czech and English, Length: 20 min
Screenplay: Svetlana Lazarova, Cinematography: Miroslav Kousal, Sound: Jiri Mach, Editing: Allan Lazarov, Music: Marketa Mazourova, Director: Svetlana Lazarova
(full text) (see photos) upAbout the essence and philosophy of the man’s martial arts skills from the very beginning of humanity to these days.
The films attempt to decipher our feelings about the touch of life or death, and thrives to undermine the martial-arts-being-a-skill-to-just-beat-somebody-up stereotype.
To go along this path is one of those alternative ways to understanding, and to live in harmony with the laws of nature.
Available in Czech and English, Length of one episode is 26 min
Screenplay: Svetlana Lazarova, Cinematography: Miroslav Kousal, Sound: Jiri Mach, Editing: Allan Lazarov, Music: Marketa Mazourova, Production: Roman Stedry, Commentary: Miroslav Machon, Director: Svetlana Lazarova
Premier: Czech Television, autumn 2007
The Seventh Episode was nominated for FICTS Milano SPORT MOVIES & TV 2008
(full text) (see photos) upAbout the essence and core of martial arts.
Available in Czech and English, Length: 37 min
Screenplay: Svetlana Lazarova, Cinematography: Miroslav Kousal, Sound: Jiri Mach, Editing: Allan Lazarov, Production: Katerina Souckova, Commentary: Miroslav Machon, Filip Novák, Iva Tereza Gronsskopfova, Director: Svetlana Lazarova
Festivals: Intern. Fest SPORTFILM Liberec 2006 FICTS WORLD CHALLENGE
It was nominated for an award at FICTS Milano SPORT MOVIES & TV 2006
Cast: Zhai Hua, Petr Macháček, Hideko Zaitsu, Roman Bittner, Roman Stědrý, Miroslav Riedel, Ladislav Hodač, Petr Nůsek, Petr Nepejchal, Ondřej Malina, Jiří Potyš, Endo Sechiro, Luděk Burian
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(see photos) upAbout the doings of Czech Silesians in Bulgaria.
Co-produced by CT and G.A.P.
Available in Czech and English, Length: 28min
Screenplay and direction: Svetlana Lazarova, Cinematography: Miroslav Kousal, Sound: Jiri Mach, Editing: Allan Lazarov, Director: Svetlana Lazarova
Cast: P.Beno Benes, P.Jiri Svoboda, P. Petr Nemec, P. Jaromir Zadrapa, Jaroslav Fogl, P.Antonín Koman, Penjo Terziev, Stefan Papukciev, Ivan Papukčiev, Penka Ivanova, Desislava Frengreva, Otec Konstantin, Otec, Canko, Otec Petr
Festivals: The Intern. Festival Golden Chest, Plovdiv, 2004, nomination
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