The film "THE LAST RACE" (Czech Republic 2022, director and screenplay: Tomáš Hodan), winner of the Audience Award at FFC'22, will be screened in Berlin for 2 days! The screening will be followed by a discussion in Czech and German with producer Martina Knoblochová (Punkfilm) and actors Bastian Beyer and Simon Kirschner, moderated by Christina Frankenberg (Czech Centre Berlin).
19.09. KinoKrokodil 19:00 Uhr
20.09. Bundesplatz-Kino 18:00 Uhr
Tickets: 9,- EUR, dis. 8,- EUR
The ČSSR in 1959. A quirky fellow finds work as a stoker in a mountain hut: In his early 80s, vegetarian, barefoot despite the solid blanket of snow, and to top it all off he’s German. The tenants, themselves having been banished to the mountains, are afraid: what if someone finds out that they are employing a German? The stranger is the sporting all-rounder Emmerich Rath. The swimmer, football and ice hockey player, wrestler and endurance athlete mostly competed for Czech teams and was furthermore known to be an individual willing to risk his life for others: During the German occupation he hid a Jewish friend in his sports shop. After World War II, he fell out of favour with the communist authorities, who accused him of "Americanism", and was forced to eke out a living as a casual labourer. His story was filmed in Czechoslovakia in 1956 in a work entitled "Sons of the Mountains". Tomáš Hodan's most recent film not only pays tribute to an unusual athlete, but also reflects on the fault lines characteristic of Czech-German relations from the eve of the First World War though to the Cold War.
A joint event of the German Culture Forum for Central and Eastern Europe and the Czech Centre Berlin.