JOURNEY TO ROME
synopsis
Vašek learns that he is dying, so he steals a painting and goes to Rome to sell it – he needs money for a healer. Sitting on a train with a fake mustache on his face, he has no idea that he has, in fact, been sent on a spiritual quest of his life by a beautiful girl. His pursuers look as if they were transported from a 1970’s movie, yet his attention is constantly drawn to the other passengers, who pull him into their own stories with no mercy. Vašek slowly gets lost in a colorful chaos of other people’s destinies, opinions and his own dreams. In the end, his train will take some of them to hell, others to enlightenment or a bizarre epiphany. The film takes a humorous view on all the basic philosophical questions we have heard so many times but that we have yet to find the answers to.
| international title: | Journey to Rome |
| original title: | Cesta do Říma |
| country: | Czech Republic, Poland |
| year: | 2015 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Tomasz Mielnik |
| film run: | 100' |
| screenplay: | Tomasz Mielnik, Vít Polácek |
| cast: | Petr Jákl, Radim Kalvoda, Jan Englert |
| cinematography by: | Jan Suster |
| film editing: | Šimon Hájek |
| producer: | Weronika Czolnowska, Mikulas Novotny, Radim Procházka |
| production: | Background Films, EasyBusyProductions |


























