WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN
synopsis
Together with her husband she came to build a utopian world in the middle of pure nature. Helena, the pregnant wife of the factory manager, is about to give birth and her family is facing a rosy future in a modern city. But all her illusions will soon perish. All it takes is the dead body of a newborn hermaphrodite to be found in the middle of their factory. Helena needs to find out what happened here for the safety of her own child, but she runs into her own prejudices... The story is inspired by the true story of intersex people in the 1930s, shortly before the war destroyed everything.
international title: | We Have Never Been Modern |
original title: | Úsvit |
country: | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
sales agent: | LevelK |
year: | 2023 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Matěj Chlupáček |
film run: | 117' |
screenplay: | Miro Šifra |
cast: | Eliška Křenková, Miloslav König, Milan Ondrík, Richard Langdon, Martha Issová, Luboš Veselý, Ladislav Hampl, Marian Mitas |
cinematography by: | Martin Douba |
film editing: | Pavel Hrdlicka |
art director: | Henrich Boraros |
music: | Simon Goff |
producer: | Maja Hamplová, Matěj Chlupáček |
production: | Barletta Production |