Borders Our Way / Hranice po našimu

Running time: 57'

In a series of episodes presented, and probably provoked, by Jan Gogola, in the dialogues he has with their protagonists, borders “our way” seem like something elusive and – not being too serious – transcendently and transcendentally uncertain. The bridge between the Czech Těšín and the Polish Cieszyn can divide as well as connect. The protagonists of the film's episodes live in Silesia, where the borders of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia meet. They speak different languages, one of which, perhaps the most important one, is speaking “our way.” A cook and songster, born in 1920, sings in Czech, Polish, Latin, Italian, German, Hungarian... When listening to him, Austria-Hungary comes to mind; a country that no longer existed the year he was born.

 

 

Authors:

  • Jan Gogola
    Born in 1971. He is a director, script editor and lecturer at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). As a script editor Gogola collaborated for example in the Czech Dream (V. Klusak, F. Remunda) or in the films of V. Chytilova or H. Trestikova. He is also author of a number of reviews, articles and essays, for example “Death to the Documentary Film”. Now he is working on the film “EXCURSIONOW” about European history face to face. Winner of awards at the International Film Festival in Jihlava and Cracow Film Festival for his film “Mám ráda nudný život.“
     
    Filmography:
     
    Král nic nedělá (2012)
    Rock života (2011)
    Hranice po našimu (2010)
    Mám ráda nudný život (2009)
    Ceské Velenice Infinity (2004)
    Národ sobě aneb České moře v osmnácti přílivech (2003)
    Panenka proti zbytku světa (2001)
    Nonstop (1998)
    Deník babicky Nemcové (2000)
    Panelák je kamarád (1999)
    Vila Inocent (1997)
     
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