Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

NEPTUN

NEPTUN

Adéla Babanová
Czech Republic, 2018, 38 Min

Fictional documentary about fake news during the Cold War: In 1964 Czech divers recovered several boxes of explosives and controversial Nazi documents from the bottom of a South Bohemian lake. Director Adéla Babanová not only exposes the action as a targeted disinformation campaign, she also reveals another unheard-of secret.

Tomáš Vach

Maria Sýkorová, an intrepid reporter from the Czech news agency ČTK, sets off to the Black Lake to see with her own eyes what the divers are retrieving from the water and to find out what is really going on there. As soon as she arrives at the shore, she meets a man who denies her access and sends her back to the hotel. Maria Sýkorová, however, does not allow herself to be turned away. She hangs around and reports when another box is pulled out of the lake, from which a clear knocking can be heard. And she follows the disgruntled man on his heels as he goes to an alleged meeting with his lover. What she finds out there puts her in great danger ... CF

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe/ Colour
Drehbuch
Džian Baban
Kamera
Lukáš Hyksa
Ton
Michaela Patríková
Schnitt
Hedvika Hansalová
Ausstattung
David Dubenský
Musik
Džian Baban
Darsteller
Gabriela Míčová, Jiří Vyorálek, Tomáš Petřík, Ladislav Hampl, Martin Ryšavý
Produzent
Tomáš Vach
Produktion
Tomáš Vach
Co-Produktion
Czech television, Magiclab, Bratři s.r.o.
Kontakt
Tomáš Vach
Prague
Czech Republic
+420 737 110 732
tvach23@gmail.com
Adéla Babanová

Adéla Babanová - born in 1980 in Prague, ČSSR (today Czech Republic). Video artist. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2006. She mainly uses the medium of short films for her works, which have already been exhibited internationally (e.g. in Bonn, Berlin, Tallinn, Warsaw) and presented at international film festivals (e.g. in Barcelona, Karlovy Vary, Jihlhava).

Movies
ROZHOVOR SE SYLVIÍ PLATH (2006, inst)
TRILOGIE O UMĚNÍ (2008-2009, 3 parts, short)
UŽ ŠEDESÁT LET JE MI TŘICET (2010, doc, short)
JÁ TAM MÁM TĚLO (2012, short)

We use cookies on our website. Some of them are essential for the operation of the site, while others help us to improve this site and the user experience (tracking cookies). You can decide for yourself whether you want to allow cookies or not. Please note that if you reject them, you may not be able to use all the functionalities of the site.