Cosy Dens
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Language | Czech |
| Budget | 20,000,000 Kč |
| Box office | 80,000,000 Kč[1] |
Cosy Dens (Czech: Pelíšky) is a 1999 Czech film directed by Jan Hřebejk. It is loosely based on the novel Hovno Hoří (Czech: "Flaming Feces") by Petr Šabach. It was voted the best Czech film by Reflex magazine in 2011.
Plot summary
Pelíšky is a bittersweet
Hollywood and pre-war French films
, while Jindřiška becomes Elien's girlfriend. After a wedding that unites the families, the film ends with the news of the invasion of the Warsaw Pact.
A dispute in the film illustrates the tension between the
knedliky (translated as "Viennese dumplings" in the English subtitles), sending her father into a rage. The plastic spoon on the poster refers to the gifts, miracles of "socialist science", which a Šebek uncle keeps sending the family and which always fail to perform as promised, humiliating Mr. Šebek. Both cases foreshadow how the political hopes of the fathers are destroyed by the coming Soviet invasion.[citation needed
]
Trivia
Pelíšky was screened at the 1999 Vancouver Film Festival.
The Czech title is a plural and diminutive of the word "pelech", literally meaning animal den or burrow. It is used figuratively for a cosy hideout.[2]
Cast
- Michael Beran as Michal Šebek
- Ondřej Brousek as Elien
- Miroslav Donutil as Mr. Šebek
- Jaroslav Dušek as Saša Mašláň
- Eva Holubová as Eva (Teacher)
- Boris Hybner as Magician
- Sylvie Koblížková as Uzlinka Šebková
- Jiří Kodet as Mr. Kraus
- Jiří Krejčík as Doctor Stárek
- Marek Morvai as Petr
- Kristýna Novákováas Jindřiška Krausová
- Bolek Polívka as Uncle
- Simona Stašová as Mrs. Šebková
- Emília Vášáryová as Mrs. Krausová
- Stella Zázvorková as Grandmother
Soundtrack
The Pelíšky soundtrack was released in April, 1999, and contains clips of some of the actors memorable lines in addition to the musical numbers.
- Blue Effect – "Slunečný hrob"
- Miroslav Kaman, Jaroslav Dušek – "Dvě dávky"
- Václav Neckář – "Tu kytaru jsem koupil kvůli tobě"
- Boleslav Polívka– "Nebe na zemi"
- Kristýna Nováková, Michael Beran, Ondřej Brousek – "Kozačky..."
- Petr Novák & Flamengo – "Povídej"
- Kristýna Nováková, Michael Beran – "Něco jako příbuzný"
- Waldemar Matuška – "Pojď se mnou, lásko má"
- Emília Vášáryová, Jiří Kodet – "Dávám bolševikovi rok"
- Hana Hegerová – "Čerešně"
- Miroslav Donutil, Boleslav Polívka, Silvie Koblížková – "Nerozbitná sklenička"
- Kučerovci – "Ajo mama"
- Miroslav Donutil, Michael Beran – "Gagarinův bratr"
- Kučerovci – "La mulher rendeira"
- Stella Zázvorková, Simona Stašová, Miroslav Donutil, Boleslav Polívka – "Maršál Malinovskij"
- Judita Čeřovská – "Je po dešti"
- Eva Holubová, Jaroslav Dušek, Marek Morvai-Javorský – "Vyděržaj, pijaněr"
- Václav Neckář – "Lékořice"
- Emília Vášáryová, Kristýna Nováková, Jiří Kodet – "Noky"
- Karel Gott – "Santa lucia"
- Miroslav Donutil, Boleslav Polívka, Jiří Kodet – "Kde udělali soudruzi z NDR chybu?"
- Waldemar Matuška – "Mrholí"
- Eva Holubová, Jaroslav Dušek, Marek Morvai-Javorský – "Hoří hovno? ..."
- Karel Gott & Olympic – "Trezor"
- Jiří Kodet – "Proletáři všech zemí ..."
- Matadors– "Get Down From The Tree"
- Soulmen– "Baby Do Not Cry"
- Soulmen– "I Wish I Were"
- Blue Effect – "Snakes"
- Boleslav Polívka– "Průměrná ženská"
- Blue Effect – "Sluneční hrob"
References
- ^ "Jan Hřebejk chystá pátý film". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 7 September 2017.
- ^ "pelech překlad z češtiny do angličtiny". Seznam.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 17 January 2024.
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