Archa bláznů aneb Vyprávění z konce života
Réalisation:
Ivan BalaďaScénario:
Lubor DohnalPhotographie:
Juraj ŠajmovičMusique:
Štěpán KoníčekActeurs·trices:
Zlatomír Vacek, Antonín Horák, Vladimír Merta, Elena Zvaríková-Pappová, Zora Rozsypalová, Eva Řepíková, Vlastimila Vlková, Zuzana Fišárková (plus)Résumés(1)
A Czech film by the Slovak director Ivan Balaďa based on the short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Ward No. 6, which was among the films whose production began in the late 1960s, but they had to be finished in 1990 after the Velvet Revolution because of a ban. – A whole spectrum of human characters and figures are living in an abandoned hospital – perhaps a former farmstead – in a non-specified Russian governorate. The patients marked by the society as mentally ill are placed in Ward no. 6. The institution is lead by an old head doctor Andrey Ragin, an internally broken man who is aware of his defeat in life. He grows close with a young patient named Ivan Gromov suffering from persecution mania. However, Gromov's opinions are actually based on a certain logic and maybe they are not as far from reality as they seem... (MFFK Febiofest)
(plus)Critiques (1)
I like Vladimír Merta very much, both as an artist and as a person. But even he, in one of the lead roles, couldn’t save this film from feeling like a completely missed opportunity and a disappointment. It's like an experimentally conceived piece in which interesting ideas are occasionally heard in a monotonous voice from the actors, but they are safely lost in the all-encompassing chaos of the filmmaking. I have no idea what kind of filmmaking stream Ivan Balaďa represents and after this film I don't want to know. Chekhov must have been spinning in his grave like the blades in a blender.
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