https://youtu.be/sqyRKolB6C4
Original Name: Na Střeše
English Name: On The Roof
Year: 2019
Run Time: 97’
Language: Czech/Vietnamese
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Director: Jiří Mádl
Producer: Monika Kristlová
Cast: Alois Švehlík ‧ Duy Anh Tran ‧ Mária Bartalos ‧ Vojtěch Dyk ‧ Adrian Jastraban, David Švehlík
Screenplay: Jirí Mádl
Cinematographer: Martin Žiaran
Editor: Jakub Vansa
Sound Designer: Klára Javoříková ‧ Marek Hart
Music Composer: René Rypar
Costume Designer: Paulína Bočková
Production Designer: Adam Pitra
Production Company: Dawson Production s.r.o.
World Sales: Dawson films
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Festivals:
Karlovy Vary IFF 2019
Czech and Slovak Film Festival WA 2019
Mannheim-Heidelberg IFF 2019
Leiden IFF 2019
Denver IFF
East by Southwest/Cinematheque – Danish Film Institute
Selected Filmography:
2014 To See The Sea
2019 On The Roof
Director’s Biography: Jiri Madl (October 23, 1986) is an award winning script writer and director. In 2009, he graduated from the University of J. A. Comenius where he studied Social and Mass Communication and subsequently graduated in screenwriting at the New York Film Academy. Jiri’s directorial debut, To See The Sea (2014) has got 5 nominations and 1 award at the Czech Film Critics Award 2014. Other awards from SOUEL YIFF, MONTREAL ICFF, VOICES European FF, MOTOVUN IFF, IFF ZLIN and many more.
Synopsis: Professor Rypar offers temporary refuge to Song, a young Vietnamese he has found hiding on the roof of his building. But can two such wildly different people share an apartment without some kind of catastrophe? Will it aid their cheeky plan at all? The coexistence of the bitter old man, angry at a world he has lost a hold on, and a young man looking for a way out of a desperate situation in a strange city, brings numerous points of friction, tragi-comic situations, as well as surprising ideas and solutions. After all, we all need to be needed by someone. And aside from warm clothes and a roof over his head, Song needs someone he can trust and who will trust him in return. But can anyone just trust some unknown boy? Professor Rypar will try, even if it means compromising his principles a bit. But is Song truly capable of repaying the trust?
