Burning Bush (miniseries)
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Burning Bush (
The fight for freedom, for moral principles, self-sacrifice, and protest in those desperate times led to the moral unification of a repressed nation, which twenty years later defeated the totalitarian regime. The anniversary of Jan Palach’s death inspired a new generation of students to start protests that led to the eventual fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, part of the eventual destruction of the Iron Curtain.
Lawyer Dagmar Burešová, who spent her life representing dissident opposition leaders, became the first
The film is dedicated to Jan Palach, Jan Zajíc, Evžen Plocek, Ryszard Siwiec, and all who sacrificed their lives while fighting for freedom.
At the International TV Festival in Monte Carlo, Ivan Trojan was awarded the prize of Golden Nymph for the Best Actor in a mini-series. It has been selected to be screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.[1]
The series was later edited into a film. The premiere of the film version was set to be on 12 September 2013.
Cast
- JUDr. Dagmar Burešová, a lawyer of the Palach family
- Jaroslava Pokorná as Libuše Palachová, Jan Palach's mother
- Petr Stach as Jiří Palach, Palach's brother
- Ivan Trojan as Major Jireš, Public security (police) officer who investigates Palach's death (fictional character)
- Igor Bareš as Major Dočekal, secret police StB ("state secret security") (fictional character)
- Vojtěch Kotek as Ondřej Trávníček, a student activist (composite character)
- Jan Budař as Radim Bureš, Burešová's husband
- Adrian Jastraban as Vladimír Charouz, Burešová's superior
- Patrik Děrgel as Pavel Janda
- Denny Ratajský as Lieutenant Boček, Jireš's workmate
- Tomáš Dianiška as Mlíko
- Jenovéfa Boková as Vlaďka Charouzová, Charouz's daughter
- Ivana Uhlířová as Judge Orlová
- Stanislav Zindulka as JUDr. Sládeček, lawyer, colleague of Burešová
- Ondřej Malý as JUDr. Knapp, lawyer, colleague of Burešová
- Martin Huba as Vilém Nový, a communist official who defames Palach
- Míša Procházková as Zuzanka Burešová, Burešová's daughter
- Tereza Korejsová as Lucinka Burešová, Burešová's daughter
- Alois Švehlík as Colonel Horyna, high-ranking Public security commander, superior of Jireš and Dočekal
- Hana Marie Maroušková as Ilona Palachová, Jiří Palach's wife
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- Emma Smetana as Hana Čížková
- Taťjana Medvecká as MUDr. Jana Ziková, a doctor who treats Palach at the hospital
- Pavel Cisovský as comrade Hazura
References
- ^ "Burning Bush". TIFF. Archived from the original on 30 August 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ^ http://www.kinobox.cz/clanek/8188-do-ceskych-kin-miri-horici-ker-v-nove-sestrihane-verzi Czech
- ^ "Oscars: Czechs Choose HBO's 'Burning Bush' for Foreign Language Category". Hollywood Reporter. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- ^ "Czechs enter Burning Bush to Oscars". Screen Daily. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- ^ "Academy Disqualifies Burning Bush". Film New Europe. Archived from the original on 13 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
External links
- Official website
- Burning Bush at IMDb
- Official trailer - short (with English subtitles) on YouTube
- Official trailer - long (with English subtitles) on YouTube
- Burning Bush at Rotten Tomatoes