Peace with Seals
Country
Czech Republic, ItalyCopyright
2007Production year
2007Premiere
1 November 2007Runtime
96 minDirector
Miloslav NovákCategory
filmGenre
essayTypology
documentarytheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Mír s tuleniCzech title
Mír s tuleniEnglish title
Peace with SealsParallel title
Alieni sulla spiaggiaWorking title
Válka s mloky – mír s tuleni / Mír s turisty / Mír s tuleni – La Foca Monaca II.Summary
Czech-Italian coproduced film follows two stories of human nature. The sad hero of the first story is Gaston the seal from the Prague zoo, who according to the zoo director became "the most famous animal on this planet" after swimming away during the devastating flood in the Czech Republic, all the way to Germany. The equally sad hero of the second story was a seal about 50 years earlier, Odysseus, who a Milan journalist caught in Sardinia and released as a pup while the cameras rolled to the famous Di Trevi fountain. The photo journalist Patellani, a friend of Federico Fellini and a specialist on film stars, was fined for his actions. Not for killing a seal, but for dirtying the water in the fountain. Fellini was inspired by this in the film La Dolce Vita and came up with the name "paparazzi" for such journalists – those, who create the "nature" of modern man. The essay invites a change of view and a reappraisal of the dominant position that man takes in nature.
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Crew and creators
Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Dramaturg
Darja Macáková (šéfdramaturgyně ČT), Jan Gogola ml. (ČT), Jana Sobková, Jana Šebková
Director of Photography
Second Unit Photography
Art Director
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Animation
Helena Rosová (animace a výtvarná spolupráce), Massimo Dumma, Martin Búřil
Special Effects
Michal Bárta (kompozice), Ivan Hřebačka (kompozice), Aleš Killián (kompozice), Ondřej Hebký (kompozice)
Visual Effects
Producer
Anna Becková (šéfproducentka ČT), Jitka Maxová, Emanuele Coppola, Marie Malinová, Milada Rebcová (ČT)
Production Manager
Jitka Maxová, Helena Machová, Marie Malinová, Milada Rebcová
Consultant
Cooperation
Music
Selected Music
Nino Rota, Georg Friedrich Händel, Tomaso Albinoni, Leroy Anderson
Songs
hymny evropských států
Production info
Original Title
Mír s tuleni
Czech Title
Mír s tuleni
English Title
Peace with Seals
Parallel Title
Alieni sulla spiaggia
Working Title
Válka s mloky – mír s tuleni / Mír s turisty / Mír s tuleni – La Foca Monaca II.
Category
film
Typology
documentarytheatrical distribution
Genre
essay
Origin country
Czech Republic, Italy
Copyright
2007
Production Year
2007
Premiere
gala premiere 31 October 2007 (kino Bio Oko, Praha)
distribution premiere 1 November 2007 /suitable for all ages/
Distribution slogan
A film on what human nature is.
Distribution
Export
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
96 min
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,66
Colour
colour, black & white
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
Dolby Digital, Dolby Spectral Recording
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech, English, Italian
Subtitles languages
Czech
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
