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The Goblin

Skřítek

Czechia | 2005, 85 min.

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Festival edition: 2005

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A provincial family moves to the city in search of a better life. The father works as a butcher at a meat factory, the mother as a check-out clerk in a hypermarket. Their daughter is at odds with her homeroom teacher, while their son – a vegetarian, anarchist, and avid pothead – is apprenticing as a butcher to please his father. The father cannot manage his upbringing and what’s more, a young attractive female butcher seduces him. The mother breaks down and prepares revenge. Somehow a goblin gets mixed up in it all, and turns all serious situations into absurdity and humour. A tragicomedy full of slapstick and vignettes, and even an unexpected shootout.

Director(-s): Tomáš Vorel

Born 1957, scriptwriter, director. He made his first film steps as a pure amateur. As an actor, an author and a director, he worked in the Sklep satirist theatre and the avant-garde pantomime Mimosa. From 1981, he worked as an assistant producer in Czechoslovak Television, later he gained valuable experience at the Barrandov Film Studios. In 1982, he was accepted to FAMU.

Director's filmography

2005 Skřítek / The Goblin
2002 Z města cesta / Way Out
2000 Cesta z města / Out of City
1996 Kamenný most / The Stone Bridge
1990 Kouř / Smoke
1988 Pražská pětka / The Prague Five

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Producer: Cineart

Cast: Bolek Polívka (ojciec), Eva Holubová (matka), Tomáš Vorel jr. (syn), Anička Marhoulová (córka), Jiří Macháček (rzeźnik)

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