Rating:12 years

Comedy, Drama

The Gardener's Year

Zahradníkův rok

IN CINEMAS FROM JULY 18, 2024

A true story of injustice perpetrated on a peaceful gardener by a wealthy neighbor meets Karel Čapek’s eponymous literary work about a gardener’s hardships and successes over the course of a year. Director Jiří Havelka, one of the most complex artistic personalities of our time, has long proved that “alternative” and “audience-friendly” need not be mutually exclusive. His quietly moving tragicomic story about a remarkably stubborn struggle for the right to a dignified life is built on two great performances by the always outstanding Oldřich Kaiser and Dáša Vokatá.

ABOUT THE MOVIE

Runtime:

100 min

A gardener (Oldřich Kaiser) and his wife (Dáša Vokatá) live at the foot of a picturesque hill and take care of their small nursery. But their idyllic life is disrupted when a new owner buys the nearby palace and begins transforming the local landscape according to his ideas. When the nursery obstructs his plans, a series of bizarre events is triggered. The new owner installs a razor-wire fence, closes the local access road, and hires a security guard (Štěpán Kozub). He then gradually ups the ante in order to achieve his goals. Determined to defend his home, the gardener refuses to give in. While the police (Jiří Vyorálek, Tomáš Jeřábek) and the mayor (Alena Mihulová) become ever more mired in their own bureaucracy, the gardener decides to take matters into his own hands. The new film by Jiří Havelka, combining bizarre, absurd, and tragicomic elements, is framed by the Karel Čapek work of the same name. In theaters July 18, 2024.

Details:

DIRECTOR:

Jiří Havelka

WRITER:

Jiří Havelka

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:

Ferdinand Mazurek

MUSIC:

Tadeáš Věrčák

CAST:

Oldřich Kaiser, Dáša Vokatá, Štěpán Kozub, Tomáš Jeřábek, Jiří Vyorálek, Alena Mihulová, Michal Isteník, Tereza Dočkalová, Magdaléna Borová, Vasil Fridrich

Production:

Jiří Tuček

EdiTOR

Jakub Hejna

Sound:

Petr Kapeller

Set design:

Jan Pjena Novotný

Make-Up Artist:

Kateřina Měšťánková

Costume Designer:

Františka Králíková

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