Czech Republic,
2021, 85 min
(Alternative: 83 min)
Directed by:
Miroslav BambušekScreenplay:
Miroslav BambušekCinematography:
Jakub HalousekComposer:
Tomáš VtípilCast:
Miloslav König, Karel Dobrý, Miloslav Mejzlík, Tereza Hof, Juraj Bača, Jakub Gottwald, Jiří Černý, Jakub Folvarčný, Tomáš BambušekPlots(1)
Sudetenland. Present. The grandson of a murdered factory owner is hired as a mystical guide to a wealthy old man’s fate. The curtly sketched wandering journey through a desolate landscape to the past reveals the roots of human brutality. Motives of personal morality, historical guilt for collaborating with the Nazis and redemption through revenge are unleashed in a phantasmagoric hallucinatory feria, a cruel dance of dehumanized figures driven to fulfillment by revenge, greed, and a faint vision of redemption. The historical allegory of Blood Kin, based on a real event, balances between documentary verisimilitude and expressive, surreal dramatization. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Czech Lion Awards
- 2021 - Jakub Halousek (Best Cinematography)
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
- 2021 - Miroslav Bambušek (Czech Joy: Best Czech Documentary Film)