2024-06-07 10:49:18
From works for kids and younger folks, Bolek Polívka fondly remembers the filming of the animated collection Rats or the household movie in regards to the canine Gump. The well-known Czech actor stated this shortly earlier than he acquired the Golden Slipper award on the closing ceremony of the Zlín Movie Pageant on Wednesday for a rare contribution to cinema for kids and youth.
Final yr, the identical award was given to the actor Pavel Zedníček, nicknamed Čmaňa, who comes from Zlín. This yr it was the flip of the seventy-four-year-old Vizovice native. “Appreciating me may be very tough. For some time I used to be afraid that they took it from Čmaň and are giving it to me. He’s from Zlínák and I’m from Vizovjan, which makes it all of the extra precious to us,” says Bolek Polívka.
He fondly remembers the filming of the collection Krysáci, which was directed by Cyril Podolský and Milan Šebesta in 2008. “We had a whole lot of enjoyable with the rats. It was achieved right here in Zlín. It is creative, there’s humor, it is about friendship between them, and it additionally takes place in a exceptional place, which is a rubbish dump close to Vizovice,” recollects Polívka. The puppet TV get together passed off in a distant nook of an “nearly forgotten” landfill close to Vizovice, Moravia.
Polívek additionally discovered filming with a canine fascinating. He acted in each Gump – the canine who taught folks to dwell from 2021 and the current Gump – we’re two. “That was good. He was such an unpredictable accomplice. I bear in mind Gump quite a bit,” notes the actor.
Bolek Polívka additionally starred within the fairy tales The Best Present, Princ Mamanek, Anděl paně 2 and Tři bratři. He favored creating for kids and younger folks. “I’ve fairly a couple of youngsters, I learn about my youngsters they usually know theirs about me. I do not attempt to play in a different way for kids and for adults, I attempt to make it the best way it must be,” he explains.
His father advised him fairy tales as a toddler. “I may inform myself what the fairy tales must be about, he would then improvise the fairy story. I did that with my youngsters too. In fact we learn to them. We have been fortunate to have a grandmother, Marcelka’s mom, she was an excellent grandmother to them, ” he recollects.
Bolek Polívka acquired a prize on the Zlín pageant. | Photograph: CTK
He was final in Vizovice within the Zlín area lower than two months in the past. “However I do not actually have anybody there anymore. Now we have a tomb there. We promised ourselves with the youngest youngsters that we might come extra usually. It is good to point out youngsters the locations the place an individual grew up, the place he skilled one thing. In addition they take pleasure in seeing dad’s background,” says Polívka.
As a toddler, he needed to be an actor within the then Staff’ Theater in Gottwaldov. “He has no concept that someday it will likely be Zlín. All my first theater experiences, aside from the truth that my father took me to Prague or Brno, have been right here,” he recollects.
He additionally went to the cinema or to academic concert events. “Zlín was a tradition for us and likewise the Vizov volunteer theater. Then I used to be fortunate to be accepted into the Zlín volunteer theater and we rehearsed Dr. Zvonk Burke’s Unusual Afternoon, which I’m nonetheless enjoying,” provides Bolek Polívka.
Greater than final yr
On the opening night of the pageant, director Hynek Bočan already acquired the Golden Shoe award. The award for the very best characteristic movie for kids was added on Wednesday night by the Canadian Max’s Farm, which, along with the professional jury, additionally gained the kids’s evaluators. It tells the story of youngsters in a village who begin a farm and lift chickens.
The judges selected the Belgian-Dutch movie Younger Hearts in regards to the old flame between two boys as the very best characteristic movie for youngsters. The Turkish-German-French movie Boarding Faculty takes residence the Golden Shoe within the class of characteristic movies for younger folks. Boarding Faculty is a few teenage boy in a boarding college for the training of Muslim values, the place he research on the request of his father. Within the class of quick animated movies for kids, the Japanese movie Magical Sweet gained. It tells the story of how a boy buys magic candies in a retailer and when he eats them, he begins to know the language of animals and even issues.
Youngsters paint on the sidewalk in entrance of the Velký cinema in Zlín. Portray was a part of this yr’s pageant. | Photograph: CTK
This yr’s sixty fourth version of the Zlín Pageant for Youngsters and Youth attracted over 24,000 viewers to 289 screenings, the organizers introduced. It’s a few thousand greater than final yr. About 90,000 folks got here to the accompanying program, within the earlier yr the organizers reported about 100,000 guests.
Quite the opposite, the variety of accredited friends elevated. This yr, 3,326 of them participated, which is a rise of just about a 3rd in comparison with final yr. “There was additionally nice curiosity from college teams, of whom we welcomed a complete of 79. Some lessons come to us for the movie program, workshops and leisure from virtually the whole Czech Republic,” explains the pageant’s govt director, Jarmila Záhorová
The celebrities on the Zlín Stroll of Fame in entrance of the Velký cinema have been added to the brothers Petr and Matěj Forman. | Photograph: CTK
“In keeping with the suggestions, we will maybe legitimately think about this yr one. We’re actually trying ahead to the total cinemas and full occasions that have been held within the metropolis,” provides the president of the present, Čestmír Vančura.
The Zlín pageant is the oldest and largest of its variety on the earth. This yr, the organizers additionally commemorated the anniversary of movie administrators Oldřich Lipský, Karel Kachyna, František Vláčil and Zdenek Rozkopal, who would have celebrated their one hundredth birthday this yr. In addition they remembered director Věra Plívová-Šimková’s Nineteen Nineties and playwright Jan Gogola’s Eighties.
Actress Tatiana Dyková and brothers Petr and Matěj Forman added stars on the Zlín Stroll of Fame in entrance of the Velký cinema this yr. The younger and promising stars of this yr’s pageant, the so-called Younger Stars, have been Anna Fialová, Darija Pavlovičová, Filip Březina and Adam Mišík.
Within the accompanying program, the guests have been curious about discussions with personalities and academic inventive workshops. The convention block Youngsters with out Borders and Zlín Business Days have been supposed for the skilled public and professionals. The Movie Flap Salon has change into a conventional a part of the pageant. Artistically rendered movie shutters are auctioned right here with the purpose of serving to younger filmmakers. From the proceeds of this yr’s public sale, the Filmtalent Zlín Basis supported 30 initiatives within the quantity of 1.9 million crowns.
The Zlín Movie Week will likely be adopted by pageant echoes, that are to be held historically in Mikulov from June 11 to 13. Nevertheless, for the primary time this yr they may also attain different cities. Chosen pageant movies will likely be proven in cinemas in Krnov, Uherské Brod, Havířov, Boskovice, Hodonín, Jičín and Šumperk from June 6 to 30. “There are 35 screenings confirmed thus far,” provides the creative director of the pageant, Markéta Pášmová.
In keeping with her, extra central motifs appeared on this yr’s photos. “Friendship was one of many huge themes. It was combined with each movies for older viewers and youthful ones. We tried to decide on movies which have a constructive tone,” Pášmová explains the dramaturgy. “I believe it is as a result of younger folks do not talk with one another as a lot. They’re on social media, they are not in common day by day contact like we was once, they worth it all of the extra when there’s an actual friendship between them ” provides the creative director.
Actress Tatiana Dyková additionally bought a star on the Zlín Stroll of Fame in entrance of the Velký cinema. | Photograph: CTK
The pageant provided nearly 300 movies from 55 international locations, 126 movies have been included within the competitions. There have been works from international locations such because the Philippines, Colombia, Ecuador and Thailand.
Along with friendship, the movies usually handled the will for change or the success of goals. “These are issues that resonate in society. The opening movie of the PSO Grand Ultimate proves it,” reminds Pášmová.
This movie tells the story of the Police Symphony Orchestra, newbie musicians from Police nad Metují who make their goals come true. The movie directed by Dominik Kalivoda had its world premiere on the pageant, and the president of the occasion, Čestmír Vančura, awarded him a particular prize for the genuine portrayal of an inspiring story of younger folks. “It carries the message of our pageant to encourage the following era, to not be afraid to comply with your goals and encompass your self with folks of the identical DNA,” provides Vančura. The PSO Grand Finale movie will likely be proven in theaters on August 29.
The upcoming sixty fifth version of the pageant will happen in Zlín from Could 29 to June 4, 2025.