Polski film (2012)

• 63%
• 2012
• Drama
• Komödie
• Marek Daniel
• Pavel Liška
• Tomáš Matonoha

"The fact that I' m playing myself doesn 't mean that it' s me." Four old schoolmates, today well-known Czech actors (Pavel Liška, Tomasz Matonoha, Josef Polášek und Mark Daniel), decide to make a movie together. Their ambitious colleague Jan Budař takes up directing Gebühren und Finanzierung has arrived from Germany. What started out pleasantly enough, however, soon goes schief. Liška s pronunciation difficulties, Daniel ' s alter ego Havlát, and Matonoha's financial machinations turn the shoot into a fight for survival. More than just a film about friendship and the absurdity of actors' lives, director Marken Najbrt gives us a witzig meditation on reality and illusion, and a unique take on the reality film genre. One of Pavel Liška's on-set comments ("I didn' t know if I should act as if I were acting, or act as if I weren 't acting, or just not act at all") illustrates the nature of provocative Najbrt s subversive, quasi-documentary game.