Journey to Rome

Journey to Rome
Cesta do Říma

Czech Republic, Poland / 2015 / 100 min
Fiction

Journey to Rome
Cesta do Říma

Czech Republic, Poland / 2015 / 100 min
Fiction

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 moustache 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 colourful 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.

Cast / Václav Hrzina , Berenika Kohoutová , Petr Slavík , Miroslav Donutil , Jan Englert , Zbigniew Zamachowski , Jiří Najvert , Zdeněk Hudeček    Writer / Tomasz Mielnik    DoP / Jan Šuster    Editor / Šimon Hájek    Sound / Michaela Patríková    Music / David Titěra , Martin Klusák , Midi Lidi

Photogallery

Czech Film Center
division of the Czech Film Fund promoting Czech cinema worldwide

Email: info@filmcenter.cz
 

 

Contact us