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CHAMPIONS

by Marek Najbrt

synopsis

Somewhere near the border, deep in the Czech countryside. A rundown bar is the meeting-place for a few guys, who have seen better days themselves. They meet to watch the World Ice Hockey Championship – Czechoslovakia’s national sport – on an old black-and-white television-set. Karel, the owner of the long-bankrupt bar, still believes in his business and the love of his wife Zdena – but she already has her eye on the elegant and vain bus-driver Milan. Neurotic Pavel from Prague can, when drunk, tell the winner of the next match. Josef is a descendant of the Gypsies – at least, that’s what the others, who make jokes about him, believe. These men put all their hope in the Czech team – and anybody who applauds a good move by the Canadians is not a real Czech, at least in their eyes.

international title: Champions
original title: Mistri
country: Czech Republic
year: 2005
genre: fiction
directed by: Marek Najbrt
release date: CZ 01/04/2004, SK 07/09/2004, HU 19/04/2007
cast: Klára Melísková, Will Spoor, Jirí Ornest, Jan Budař, Leoš Noha, Tomáš Matonoha, Josef Polášek, Cyril Drozda, Jan Rehák
cinematography by: Miloslav Holman
film editing: Pavel Hrdlicka
art director: Milan Býček
costumes designer: Andrea Kralova
music: Petr Marek
producer: Milan Kuchynka, Pavel Strnad, Dusan Kukal, Jaroslav Kučera, Jan Otcenásek, Helena Uldrichová
production: Barrandov Studios, Negativ Film Productions, Czech Television - Česká televize

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