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 |