Section: Short Film Competition

Atlantída, 2003

Atlantis, 2003

Michal Blaško
Slovakia, Czech Republic, 2017, 30 Min

A deeply moving fate-tragedy: a young couple flees from the Ukraine to Germany, full of hope and eagerness. The long and hazardous journey evolves into a trust test, with the two willing to sacrifice everything for the chance of a better life, their love for one another is no exception.

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Knee-deep in boglands, without contact to the outside world, where every sound contains a potential danger of death and every ally is a possible traitor: the film portrays the exhausting process of escaping to the European Union, illustrating that nobody would decide to undertake such a journey lightly. Though the viewer isn't privy to the couple's background, it becomes clear that Martin and Denisiya are looking for a way out of poverty, unemployment and desperation. Despite the exhaustion and fear, the two stick together, driven by blind hope.

Akin to Plato's sunken island, the truth here is buried deep below the surface; the brief insight provided to the viewer suffices to say that there's more than meets the eye. Emphatic and nuanced performances by Levan Mania and Elizaveta Maximová, the latter also featuring in the SPECIALS programme Belarus in IMITACE/IMITATION, allow the viewer to become attached to the characters, only for them to be mercilessly torn away from us again. DJ

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Michal Blaško
Kamera
Adam Mach
Ton
Ivan Durkech
Schnitt
Petr Hasalík
Ausstattung
Ivan Durkech
Darsteller
Elizaveta Maximová, Levan Mania, Vladislav Sarišský
Produzent
Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU)
Produktion
Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU)
Co-Produktion
FAMU
Kontakt
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Michal Blaško

Michal Blaško - born in 1989 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He studies Film and television directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU). His short films have successfully participated in multiple international film festivals and competitions. He also worked as 1st Assistant Director and Second Unit Director for Peter Bebjak’s ČIARA (part of the FEATURE FILM COMPETITION of FFC 2017).

Movies
BYLO DESET, BUDE JEDENÁCT (2012, short)
ZÍDKA (2014, short)
STRACH (2015, short)
KAMION (2017, short)

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