TOBRUK
Czech Republic / 2008 / 102 min. / Colour
new czech feature film - competition
written by: STEPHEN CRANE, VÁCLAV MARHOUL
screenplay: VÁCLAV MARHOUL
directed by: VÁCLAV MARHOUL
dir. of photography: VLADIMÍR SMUTNÝ
music: RICHARD HOROWITZ, SUSSAN DEYHIM
editor: LUDĚK HUDEC
sound: PAVEL REJHOLEC, JAKUB ČECH
dramaturgy: VÁCLAV ŠAŠEK, JAN GOGOLA
art director: JAN VLASÁK
costume designer: JAROSLAVA PROCHÁZKOVÁ
production: SILVER SCREEN
prod. manager: ALEŠ TÝBL, KATEŘINA ŠPŮROVÁ, IRENA MÁCHOVÁ
producer: VÁCLAV MARHOUL
co-producer: JAROSLAV KUČERA, IVETA MALACHOVSKÁ
cast: JAN MEDUNA, PETR VANĚK, ROBERT NEBŘENSKÝ, MATĚJ HÁDEK, ANDREJ POLÁK, KRYŠTOF RÍMSKÝ, MARTIN NAHÁLKA, MICHAL NOVOTNÝ, RADIM FIALA, PETR STACH, PETR LNĚNIČKA, MATÚŠ KRÁTKY, PETR HALBERSTADT
date of premiere: 11. 9. 2008
In autumn 1941 soldiers from the eastern Czechoslovak infantry battalion 11 are sent to defend the Libyan port of Tobruk, under attack from Rommel's Afrikakorps and four Italian divisions. Among the battalion's members is young Jewish soldier Jan Lieberman, who from the start has been picked on by racist corporal Kohák. Another new boy is the private Jiří Pospíchal. His naive and idealistic ideas of heroism and war are harshly confronted with the unbearable hell of the African desert, the daily threat to life and ever-present death. This all takes a cruel toll on him, one which only war can mete out.
Screening
| Date | Time | Hall |
|---|---|---|
| 21.04.2009 | 19:00 | Cinema City |
| 21.04.2009 | 21:30 | Meštanská Beseda - velký sál/big hall |
