>Reply-To: "Cultural Section" <[email protected]> >From: "Cultural Section" <[email protected]> >Subject: Film Screening - Angel Exit (Andel >Exit), April 26 at 7:00 pm at the Czech Embassy >Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:56:19 -0400 >Organization: Czech Embassy > > >Dear Friends of Czech Culture: > >On Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 7:00 pm, the >Embassy of the Czech Republic will screen >Director Vladimir Michalek’s film Angel Exit (Andel Exit). > >This is Vladimir Michalek’s fourth feature based >on a book by Jachym Topol (who had a hand in >writing the script). The film centers around a >drug dealer named Mikes who lives in Prague and >longs to escape his own clichéd life. It is a >gangster story from the periphery of the Smichov >district of Prague, a junkie horror tale about >the missing fifth element, and a love story >about blood and two choices. Everything in the >film has fused into a single drunken dream that >we would like to shake off, while knowing all >along that it contains more truth than sober >wakefulness. The movie was shot digitally and >then transferred to film, and this became its >main artistic attribute. (Dir. Vladimir >Michalek, 2000, 100 min., Czech with English subtitles.) > >The film received seven Czech Lion nominations >in 2000 and was awarded two Czech Lion Awards >for Best Film Editing and Best Design Achievement. > >Filmmaker Vladimir Michalek was born in 1956 in >Mlada Boleslav, Czech Republic. From >1987-1992, he studied Documentary Production at >FAMU (the Czech Film and Television Academy in >Prague) and worked at Barrandov Studios as an >assistant director while still a student. After >graduating from FAMU, he worked as an assistant >director with foreign directors. He as well >began to make documentary films and has been >directing feature films since 1989. He has >worked with 26 directors including: Bernhard >Wicky (The Spider’s Web I and II - 1986, 1988), >P. Weigel (Romeo and Juliet in the Village, >1989), and Ted Kotchef (The Shooter, 1995). > >Michalek’s feature films include America >(Amerika), Forgotten Light (Zapomenute svetlo), >Sekal Has to Die (Je treba zabit Sekala), Prague >Stories (Praha ocima…), and Autumn Spring (Babi leto). > >For reservations, please call 202/274-9100 x. >3413. If you have additional questions, please call 202/274-9105. > >Take care, >Mary E. Fetzko