Winter Flies

A modest and subtle road movie about two 14-year-olds who drive through the Czech Republic in a stolen car. A bad policeman and an even-worse policewoman try to establish what has really happened, that is, where they got the car and what the goal of their dangerous journey was. They capture and interrogate one of them. Mara looks like bad news, so they treat him accordingly, but looks can be deceiving.

Credits

Reżyseria

Olmo Omerzu

written by

Petr Pýcha

director of photography

Lukáš Milota

music

Šimon Holý, Monika Midriaková, Paweł Szamburski

production design

Antonin Šilar

costume design

Anna Marešková, Marjetka Kürner Kalous

make-up

Kristýna Jurečková

sound

Daniel Němec

edited by

Jana Vlčková

cast

Tomáš Mrvik, Jan František Uher, Eliška Křenková, Lenka Vlasáková, Martin Pechlát

production

Endorfilm, Ceská Televize

producer

Jiři Konečný

co-produced by

Koskino, DI Factory

executive producer

Eva Kovářová

production manager

Martin Mikula

co-financed by

Státní Fond Kinematografie, Slovenski Filmski Center Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Audiovizuálny Fond

Selected awards

2018 – Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – Best Director Award; Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury

Olmo Omerzu

born in 1984 in Ljubljana, now the capital of Slovenia. In 2011, he graduated from FAMU, Prague, with A Night Too Young. After its premiere in the Forum section of the 2012 Berlinale, the film was screened at many international festivals and won numerous accolades, incl. the award of Czech film critics and for the discovery of the year. In 2015, Omerzu finished his second feature, Family Film, an international co-production co-financed by Media and Eurimages. The film premiered at San Sebastián International Film Festival and received the award for best artistic contribution at the Tokyo International Film Festival, among many others; film of the year according to Czech critics.

Selected films

2012 A Night Too Young

2015 Family Film

Obsada

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