THE INTERPRETER

Director - Martin Šulík

Script - Martin Šulík, Marek Leščák

Camera - Martin Štrba

Music - Vladimír Godár

Cast - Peter Simonischek, Jiří Menzel

Producers - Martin Šulík, Rudolf Biermann, Bruno Wagner

Production - Titanic, In Film Praha

80-year-old interpreter Ali Ungár travels to Vienna in search of the former Nazi officer who might have executed his parents. He finds only his son Georg, a bon vivant retiree who has distanced himself from his father’s past. But Ali’s visit awakens his interest, and the two men take off on a journey across Slovakia in search of surviving witnesses of the wartime tragedy.The heart of Martin Šulík’s bittersweet adventure movie is the superb chemistry between Peter Simonischek and Jiri Menzel.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Haifa '18 – Tobias Spencer Award

Program

26.03.2019
EURO CINEMA - 20.00 часа
18.03.2019
DOM NA KINOTO - 20.30 часа
24.03.2019
CULTURE CENTER “G8” - 19.45 часа

Martin Šulík

Martin Šulík was born in 1962 in Zilina. In 1986, graduated from VSMU in Bratislava as a film and TV director. In 1994, he started teaching in the same university. He has several features as a director behind him, including the awards winning Neha (Special Mention from Cottbus IFF), Všetko čo mám rád (Grand Prize from Cottbus IFF), The Garden (Grand Prize from Cottbus IFF, Czech Lion for Best Director and Best Script, as well as the Critics’ Award, Special Prize of the Jury and the Ecumenical Jury Prize from Karlovy Vary IFF), and Gypsy (Special Prize of the Jury, Don Quijote Award and Label Europa Cinemas Award from Karlovy Vary IFF), among others. He is also a documentary director, mostly famous for his TV series project dedicated to the Czechoslovakian New Wave. He is also a producer.

FILMOGRAPHY

1984 The Courtyard – short
1986 Staccato – short
1991 Neha
1992 Everything I Like (Všetko čo mám rád)
1993 Don Quijote z Krivian
1995 Award (Záhrada)
1997 Orbis Pictus
1999 Prague Stories (Praha očima) – segment „Pictures From a Visit”
2000 Landscape
2002 The Key for Determining Dwarfs or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver (Klíč k určování trpaslíků aneb Poslední cesta Lemuela Gullivera)
2005 The City of the Sun (Sluneční stát)
2007 Martin Slivka – muž, ktorý sadil stromy – doc.
2009 25 From the Sixties or the Czechoslovak New Wave (25 ze šedesátých aneb Československá nová vlna) – TV doc.
2011 Gypsy (Cigan)
2018 The Interpreter

THE INTERPRETER

Slovakia-Czech Republic, 2018, 113′, color, movie

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Program

Martin Šulík