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EL ESTRENO (THE PLAY)
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Completed - CZECH - Drama - 93 minutes

Log Line

The world of a theatre director crumbles after he decides to adapt a play based on Euripides' Fedra. He gets involved with an actress, puting his marriage at risk. The play fails and his wife leaves him. He will try to regain her love, to be the best possible father and husband. Not a perfect one.

Previous markets

  • Ventana Sur 2019 (Premiere)
Full history

Year of production : 2019

Director(s) : Alejandro F ALMENDRAS
Writer(s) : Alejandro FERNÁNDEZ ALMENDRAS
Cast : Jiri MADL, Elizaveta MAXIMOVA, Marika SOPOSKA

Producer(s) : Veronika FINKOVÁ (Film & Roll), Bruno BETTATI (JIRAFA), Augusto MATTE (JIRAFA), Guillaume DE SEILLE (ARIZONA PRODUCTIONS), Alejandro FERNÁNDEZ ALMENDRAS (Fernández Film)

Synopsis

The world of a young theatre director in a small Czech town crumbles, after he decides to
realize his dream - adapt an overly ambitious play based on Euripides; classic Fedra. During rehearsals he looses his two main actors and falls for a young actress Karolina. Tensions at his home grow. He’s not much of a present husband and a father. And to make things worse, municipality threatens to cut funding due to the play’s political content. The day of the premiere comes and our protagonist, abandoned by both of his women, desperately tries to save his masterpiece. However the play is a fiasco. Devastated, he collects last pieces left of his life, but is it far too late?

Production

Country(ies) : CZECH REPUBLIC, CHILE, FRANCE

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Festivals and Awards

Valdivia IFF 2019


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