Cosy Dens
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Cosy Dens | |
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Directed by | Jan Hřebejk |
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Cinematography | Jan Malíř |
Edited by | Vladimír Barák |
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Distributed by | Česká televize |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Country | Czechia |
Language | Czech |
Budget | 20,000,000 Kč[citation needed] |
Box office | 80,000,000 Kč[1] |
Cosy Dens (Czech: Pelíšky) is a 1999 Czech film directed by Jan Hřebejk. It is loosely based on the novel Hovno Hoří (Czech: "shit on fire") by Petr Šabach. Readers of Reflex magazine voted it as the best Czech film in 2011.[2] The film was screened at the 1999 Vancouver International Film Festival.[3]
Synopsis
[edit]Cosy Dens is a bittersweet coming-of-age story set in the months from Christmas 1967 up to the 1968 Prague Spring. Teenager Michal Šebek has a crush on his upstairs neighbour, Jindřiška Krausová. Michal's family is led by a stubborn army officer who is a firm supporter of the Communist system and who believes that Communist technology will eventually triumph over "Western imperialist capitalism', while Jindřiška's father is an ardent foe of the Communists and a war hero, who has been imprisoned several times because of his outspoken opposition to the regime. He believes that "the Bolsheviks have a year left at most, maybe two". In contrast, the younger generation could not care less for politics. Instead, Michal sports a Beatles-style mop-top, while Elien, whose parents live in the United States, runs a local film group specialising in Hollywood and pre-war French films. Jindřiška eventually becomes Elien's girlfriend. After a wedding that unites the families, the film ends with the news of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops.
Trivia
[edit]The Czech title is a plural and diminutive of the word "pelech", literally meaning animal den or burrow. It is used figuratively for a cosy place to sleep.[4]
Cast
[edit]- Michael Beran as Michal Šebek
- Ondřej Brousek as Elien
- Miroslav Donutil as Mr. Šebek
- Jaroslav Dušek as Saša Mašláň
- Eva Holubová as Eva (teacher)
- Boris Hybner as Magician
- Sylvie Koblížková as Uzlinka Šebková
- Jiří Kodet as Mr. Kraus
- Jiří Krejčík as Doctor Stárek
- Marek Morvai as Petr
- Kristýna Nováková as Jindřiška Krausová
- Bolek Polívka as Uncle
- Simona Stašová as Mrs. Šebková
- Emília Vášáryová as Mrs. Krausová
- Stella Zázvorková as Grandmother
Soundtrack
[edit]The soundtrack to Cosy Dens was released in April 1999 and contains snippets of dialogue in addition to songs.[5]
- Blue Effect – "Slunečný hrob"
- Miroslav Kaman, Jaroslav Dušek – "Dvě dávky"
- Václav Neckář – "Tu kytaru jsem koupil kvůli tobě"
- Bolek Polívka – "Nebe na zemi"
- Kristýna Nováková, Michael Beran, Ondřej Brousek – "Kozačky..."
- Petr Novák & Flamengo – "Povídej"
- Kristýna Nováková, Michael Beran – "Něco jako příbuzný"
- Waldemar Matuška – "Pojď se mnou, lásko má"
- Emília Vášáryová, Jiří Kodet – "Dávám bolševikovi rok"
- Hana Hegerová – "Čerešně"
- Miroslav Donutil, Bolek Polívka, Silvie Koblížková – "Nerozbitná sklenička"
- Kučerovci – "Ajo mama"
- Miroslav Donutil, Michael Beran – "Gagarinův bratr"
- Kučerovci – "La mulher rendeira"
- Stella Zázvorková, Simona Stašová, Miroslav Donutil, Bolek Polívka – "Maršál Malinovskij"
- Judita Čeřovská – "Je po dešti"
- Eva Holubová, Jaroslav Dušek, Marek Morvai-Javorský – "Vyděržaj, pijaněr"
- Václav Neckář – "Lékořice"
- Emília Vášáryová, Kristýna Nováková, Jiří Kodet – "Noky"
- Karel Gott – "Santa lucia"
- Miroslav Donutil, Bolek Polívka, Jiří Kodet – "Kde udělali soudruzi z NDR chybu?"
- Waldemar Matuška – "Mrholí"
- Eva Holubová, Jaroslav Dušek, Marek Morvai-Javorský – "Hoří hovno...?"
- Karel Gott & Olympic – "Trezor"
- Jiří Kodet – "Proletáři všech zemí..."
- The Matadors – "Get Down from the Tree"
- The Soulmen – "Baby Do Not Cry"
- The Soulmen – "I Wish I Were"
- Blue Effect – "Snakes"
- Miroslav Donutil, Bolek Polívka – "Průměrná ženská"
- Blue Effect – "Sluneční hrob"
References
[edit]- ^ "Jan Hřebejk chystá pátý film". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 7 September 2017.
- ^ "10 nejlepších českých filmů podle čtenářů Reflexu. Nejraději máte Pelíšky!". reflex.cz (in Czech). 24 August 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
- ^ "Cosy Dens". Variety. 31 October 1999. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
- ^ "pelech překlad z češtiny do angličtiny". Seznam.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 17 January 2024.
- ^ "Pelíšky". kfilmu.net (in Czech). Retrieved 15 August 2024.
External links
[edit]- Cosy Dens at IMDb
- Cosy Dens at the Kinobox.cz Czech
- Cosy Dens at Eurochannel
- 1999 films
- Films set in 1967
- Films set in 1968
- Czech coming-of-age films
- Films directed by Jan Hřebejk
- Prague Spring
- Communism in fiction
- Films set in Prague
- Czechoslovakia in fiction
- Czech Lion Awards winners (films)
- Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in popular culture
- 1990s Czech-language films
- 1990s coming-of-age films