The current social situation serves as a background for the film where two myths are fusing – the Mozart myth and the Don Juan myth. The classical adventure of the Sevillian seducer penetrates the story of the Director who is trying to come up with a new approach to the famous opera Don Giovanni as a tribute to the Mozart celebrations.
“The contemporary social situation serves as a backdrop to the escapades of the famous seducer. They mingle with the story of the Film Director who attempts a new staging of the renowned opera Don Giovanni on the occasion of celebrating Mozart’s anniversary. The antipole of the Film Director who admires Mozart for his brilliant oeuvre is the Theatre Director who solely views the famous composer as merchandise. Don Gio, the leading part in the film, simultaneously acts the role and represents the embodiment of Don Juan and he is also the one who pays for the entire production. He is possessed by both evil and a passionate and unrestrained desire for freedom. Being mainly fascinated by the dark sides of Mozart’s personality;, he is more interested in the creative process and the ingenious creature than in his immortal work” (after Film Review No. 11, 1992, p. 9). Gio and the Film Director talk about art and their views of truth, good and evil at a press conference for the new staging. The Theatre Director at the same time preaches about business and the immorality of Mozart’s contemporaries to the journalists at the theatre gate. The press conference is violently interrupted by the bursting in of a knight commander. Don Gio, prodded by Leporello, accepts the knight’s offered hand, thus falling prey to Hell in the form of a repugnant cabaret and gambling room. – The film was the first to reflect the condition of Czechoslovak society after 1989. In its form, it is the first consistent manifesto of the Czech mutation of the post-modern tendency in art.
Giovanni
Leporello
Elvira
Režisér
Ředitel divadla
Anna
Zerlina
Ottavio
syn Giovanniho
Komtur/cizinec-obchodník
Masseto
otec
dcera
Kristus
slečna
inspicient
dirigent
violoncellistka
člen orchestru
člen orchestru
člen orchestru
člen orchestru
člen orchestru
člen orchestru
člen orchestru
člen hereckého souboru
člen hereckého souboru
členka hereckého souboru
členka hereckého souboru
sluha Giovanniho
tlumočník
cizinec
reportér CNN David
redaktor
novinář
novinář
novinář
novinářka
novinářka
soudce da Ponte
produkční
člen hnutí Greenpeace/fotograf
mladík
přítel Ředitele divadla
služka Zerliny
muž Elviry
členka společnosti ze 30. let/bruslící servírka/tanečnice na diskotéce
členka společnosti ze 30. let/tanečnice na diskotéce
členka společnosti ze 30. let
členka společnosti ze 30. let
členka společnosti ze 30. let
člen společnosti ze 30. let
skinhead a anarchista
skinhead a anarchista/tanečník na diskotéce
skinheadka a anarchistka
fotograf
fotograf
fotograf
fotograf
bruslící servírka
bruslící servírka
bruslící servírka
tanečnice na diskotéce
tanečnice na diskotéce
tanečník na diskotéce
chlápek
žena s knihou
muž s vlajkou
opilý šlechtic
revolucionář
hosteska
hosteska
návštěvník divadla
barman
barman
osobní strážce
osobní strážce
žena mnoha rolí
muž mnoha rolí
Lorenzo da Ponte (Don Giovanni – operní libreto)
Jan Jirák, Robert Zalay (steadicam), Peter Šutovský (steadicam)
Vladimír Houška, Lukáš Máslo, Petr Tříska, Michal Šup, Pavel Švebiš, Karel Zach
Hafan film, Miloslav Špála, Jan Balej, Bedřich Glaser, Josef Hrudka (počítačová animace), Jana Kaňanská (počítačová animace)
Olga Svobodová (fotografka), Jan Vaculík, Miroslav Kratina, Petra Holeštová
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Don Giovanni)
Orchestr Národního divadla v Praze (Music Conducted by Josef Kuchinka), Česká filharmonie (Music Conducted by Libor PešekPavel Vaněk), Martin Němec, Pavel Nedoma
Don Gio
Don Gio
Don Gio
film
featuretheatrical distribution
allegory
Czechoslovakia
1992
1992
the end of the distribution monopoly 4 November 1997
premiere 5 November 1992 /recommended for 15 and over/
An expressive morally, cultural horror with musical elements. Karel Roden in the arena of spiritual relations and physical "intercourses".
feature film
96 min
2 800 meters
35mm
1:1,37
colour
sound
Dolby Stereo
Czech
Czech, English, German, Italian
without subtitles
Czech