Něžný barbar

Later life film? Or Czech films that have kind of been forgotten II.

directed by Petr Koliha, Czechoslovakia 1989, 88 min.

The 1950s. Three friends - bohemians and outsiders - live on the outskirts of Prague in Libeň: Vladimír (actually an exceptional artist Vladimír Boudník), the Doctor (Bohumil Hrabal) and the philosopher Egon Bondy (by his own name Zbyněk Fišer). They meet in the World automat, have peculiar discussions about the true nature of art and refuse to take real time into account.
The screenwriter Václav Nývlt and the director did not try to find an adequate cinematic expression of Hrabal's tavern-like, "unfilmable" text. They settled for a classical, slightly poeticized style, within which they leave enough space for the trio of extravagant protagonists and the figures that line their lives. Koliha relied primarily on the trio of main actors: Bolek Polívka played Vladimir, Arnošt Goldflam played Egon, and Jiří Menzel, the court adaptor of Hrabal's works, played the Doctor. 

In original version.

After the screening, there will be a discussion with director Petr Koliha.