28-06-2011

FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Visible World

By Dominika Uhríková

    BRATISLAVA: Visible World, an intimate psychological drama by Slovak writer and director Peter Krištúfek (Long Short Night; Snapshots), makes its world premiere in the 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival's East of the West competition.

    The 104-minute film features Czech actor Ivan Trojan (Loners; Želary; The Karamazovs) in the lead role as Oliver, a lonely forty-something air traffic controller who occupies his time by watching TV and observing the family living in the house across the street, whom he views as an ideal of happiness.

    "The idea for the film came to my mind as I was looking through the window at a friend's place in one of Bratislava's residential neighbourhoods," Krištúfek told FNE. "I was struck by how people living in these blocks-of-flats are so close, and yet so far away from each other."

    As the director added, the movie is deliberately minimalistic in its use of dialogue and the stylised use of noises "polluting our environment."

    Visible World, shot over 26 days in the winter of 2009 and the autumn of 2010, is a co-production between JMB Film & TV Production (www.jmbfilm.sk) and Slovak Television (www.stv.sk). The film, budgeted at €1,181,000, received€508,000 from the Slovak Audiovisual Fund (www.avf.sk), and will be released in Slovak cinemas in August 2011.

    Contact details:

    JMB Film & TV Production

    Tvarožkova 8

    811 03 Bratislava, Slovakia

    Phone: +421 907 475 986

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    www.jmbfilm.sk

    Slovak TV

    Mlynská dolina

    845 45 Bratislava, Slovakia

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    www.stv.sk