INSECT (OUT OF COMPETITION)

Jan Švankmajer

Jan Švankmajer

Jan Růžička, Adam Oľha

Athanor - Film Production Company, Llc [Cz]

Kamila Magálová, Jiří Lábus, Jan Budař, Ivana Uhlířová, Norbert Lichý, Jaromír Dulava

The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s clear: this amateur theatre company has a long way to go before they can perform their version of The Insect Play, a famous satirical work from 1922 by the brothers Karel and Josef Čapek which features insects with decidedly human traits: greed, egocentrism, jealousy.

DCP, color

Athanor - Film Production Company, Llc

Jan Švankmajer
CZECH REPUBLIC 1934

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:

2018 HMYZ (INSECT)
2010 PREZÍT SVUJ ZIVOT (SURVIVING LIFE)
2005 SÍLENÍ (LUNACY)
2000 OTESÁNEK (LITTLE OTIK)
1988 NECO Z ALENKY (ALICE)

Festivals: Rotterdam