Directed by:
David OndříčekCinematography:
Richard ŘeřichaComposer:
Jan P. MuchowCast:
Marek Taclík, Klára Issová, Ladislav Mrkvička, Jaromír Dulava, Jaroslav Plesl, Dita Zábranská, Jaroslav Rudiš, Kamil Halbich, Igor Chmela, Tatiana Dyková (more)Plots(1)
Grandhotel is a place between the sky and earth. A place flowing with clouds and human desires. This metaphorical tale is set in a famous hotel overlooking Liberec. In it, Vlasta Fleischman is working as a guard and a prisoner at the same time, as both a repairman and an amateur meteorologist who wants to get as close to the skies as his life will permit. But he has reached its limit. Only birds and fools can get any higher and Fleischman constantly wishes to be a bird someday. For Fleischman, Liberec is both a cage and a place which binds him to an old promise, keeping him from surpassing its borders. Every day Fleischman thinks about just one thing – how to take off and fly away from the hotel, from Liberec, from his far-from-successful life. A fool would construct wings but Fleischman is sewing a hot air balloon to fly away in. He is no fool. The day would have quickly arrived if Ilja had not entered his life. This silent chambermaid draws Fleischman’s thoughts back to earth because this is where his heart belongs. But Ilja is not single, she has long been suffering in her relationship with Patka, an arrogant waiter who is the perfect reason to hide in the clouds. Patka doesn’t want to let Ilja go, confident that everything he does in his life is done for the two of them. And for her. For happiness on earth. However, Ilja is attracted, upwards, to Fleischman. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Marek Taclík
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Dukla 61 (2018) (TV movie)
Brouk v hlavě (2002) (TV movie)
Operace Silver A (2007) (TV movie)
Klára Issová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV movie)
Kabaret Caligula - PanzerFaust (2018) (theatrical recording)
Operace Silver A (2007) (TV movie)
Ladislav Mrkvička
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Tažní ptáci (1983) (TV movie)
Bratři Karamazovi (1981) (theatrical recording)
The Assassination (1964)
Jaromír Dulava
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Czech Soda (1998)
Dámský krejčí (2012) (theatrical recording)
The Black Barons (1992)
Jaroslav Plesl
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Příběhy obyčejného šílenství (2009) (theatrical recording)
Teremin (2010) (theatrical recording)
The Defender (2021) (series)
Dita Zábranská
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Brothers (2023)
One Way Ticket (2010)
Kobova garáž (2003) (TV movie)
Jaroslav Rudiš
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Hvězda padá na hubu (2013) (amateur film)
Grandhotel (2006)
National Street (2019)
Kamil Halbich
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Muž v pozadí (1995) (series)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Czech Century (2013) (series)
Igor Chmela
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Oblomov (2002) (theatrical recording)
Král Lear (2003) (theatrical recording)
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
Tatiana Dyková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Teremin (2010) (theatrical recording)
Monahikoi typoi (2000)
Operace Silver A (2007) (TV movie)
Matěj Hádek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Cosy Dens (1999)
Návštěvy u pana Greena (2016) (theatrical recording)
Operace Silver A (2007) (TV movie)
Jan Španbauer
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Stairway to Power (2023) (series)
Czech Century (2013) (series)
Revizor (1998) (theatrical recording)
Zuzana Stivínová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Black Barons (1992)
Chef Speciality (1999) (TV movie)
Lost Gate (2012) (series)
Oldřich Mach
Best movies:
Shadows of a Hot Summer (1977)
Grandhotel (2006)
Ladislav Dušek
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Signum Laudis (1980)
Škola žen (2016) (theatrical recording)
Shadow Country (2020)
Věra Havelková
Best movies:
La Vie en rose (2007)
Grandhotel (2006)
O život (2007)