Synopse
Based on real events, this powerful debut tells of racism, fake news and the rise of the New Right. Irina is a single mother from Ukraine, who lives in a small Czech town. One night, her 13-year old son Igor is mugged and badly injured. When he comes round, he puts the blame on their Roma neighbours. While the police investigate, the whole town expresses solidarity with mother and son and joins Irina in her fight for justice. But when it turns into a big campaign and different figures from the media, politics and civil society start to use the incident for their own ends, Irina begins to have doubts.
Regie
MICHAL BLASKO (*1989 in Bratislava) studied direction and screenplay writing at the Miroslav Ondříček film academy in Písek in the Czech Republic and thereafter direction in Bratislava (VSMU).
Info
Original Title: Obeť
Category: Feature
Section: Kaleidoskop
Version & Subtitles: Ukrainian, Czech OV with German subtitles
Director: Michal Blaško
Screenplay: Michal Blaško, Jakub Medvecký
Cast/Protagonists: Vita Smachelyuk, Gleb Kuchuk, Igor Chmela, Viktor Zavadil, Inna Zhulina, Alena Mihulová
Production country: Slovakia, Germany, Czech Republic
Year of Production: 2022
Length: 91 min
Producer: Jakub Viktorín, Pavla Janoušková Kubečková
Production company: nutprodukcia (Jakub Viktorín), nutprodukce (Pavla Janoušková Kubečková)
co-production company: Electric Sheep GmbH
World Sales: Pluto Film
Distributor: Stephan Holl, Rapid Eye Movies GmbH
