Writer Bohumil Hrabal: And so it happened that...
Director Oliver Malina Morgenstern
Countries Czech Republic
Duration 74 min
Synopsis
About the film:, Motto: “I think that the longer one walks through his life, the stronger the need to return to, his childhood, the stronger the desire to return to his image of a boy and carry out what he, used to think and dream about.” (Bohumil Hrabal), Under the patronage of Ministry of Culture and capital city of Prague and as a part of, a project “Hrabal to Prague – Prague to Hrabal”, a well known Czech director Oliver Malina, Morgenstern, laureate of Arnošt Lustig’s Award, has created a documentary film „And so it, happened, that...” about an outstanding personality of literary heaven – Bohuminl Hrabal., One of the most significant writers of the 20th century Bohumil Hrabal was born in, Brno –Židenice and grew up in Polná and Nymburk. He studied at Faculty of Law at Charles, University, but after the Czech universities were closed by German occupational authorities,, he undergone a whole range of professions, even though after the war he did finish his study, and in 1946 got a title JUDr., Hrabal worked as a clerk, tracklayer, train dispatcher, travelling salesman, worker in, Kladno steelworks, paper packer in a waste collection point, and scene-shifter in S. K., Neuman’s Theatre in Prague – Libeň. In the fifties he moved from Nymburk to Libeň and, stayed there. In no. 24 on the street Na Hrázi Věčnosti (On the Embankment of Eternity) he, used to meet his friends graphic artist Vladimír Boudník, poet Egon Bondy and many other, personages. And meanwhile, his atomic Schreibmaschine Perkeo churned out under his, keystrokes one text after another. Hrabal was a professional writer since 1963 until his, death., His books, which have been filmed many times, are still being published all over the, world. They were already translated into more than 29 languages., The full length documentary film, which got its name after Hrabal’s favoured, collocation „And so it happened, that...”, features among others film directors Jiří Menzel,, Jan Němec and Petr Koliha, their colleague from theatre Ivo Krobot, academic painter Václav, Špale, publicist Tomáš Mazal, Václav Neckář, Joska Skalník, professor Josef Zumr,, philosopher and Hrabal’s friend and neighbour from Libeň, senior consultant of the, orthopaedic clinic at Bulovka hospital MUDr. Pavel Dungl, poet Egon Bondy, and also drawer, from Zlatý tygr pub Karel Hulata and professor František Dvořák., Attractiveness of the documentary is increased by acted scenes and commentaries of, Oldřich Kaiser in indispensable “kissing” uniform of a train dispatcher.
About the film:, Motto: “I think that the longer one walks through his life, the stronger the need to return to, his childhood, the stronger the desire to return to his image of a boy and carry out what he, used to think and dream about.” (Bohumil Hrabal), Under the patronage of Ministry of Culture and capital city of Prague and as a part of, a project “Hrabal to Prague – Prague to Hrabal”, a well known Czech director Oliver Malina, Morgenstern, laureate of Arnošt Lustig’s Award, has created a documentary film „And so it, happened, that...” about an outstanding personality of literary heaven – Bohuminl Hrabal., One of the most significant writers of the 20th century Bohumil Hrabal was born in, Brno –Židenice and grew up in Polná and Nymburk. He studied at Faculty of Law at Charles, University, but after the Czech universities were closed by German occupational authorities,, he undergone a whole range of professions, even though after the war he did finish his study, and in 1946 got a title JUDr., Hrabal worked as a clerk, tracklayer, train dispatcher, travelling salesman, worker in, Kladno steelworks, paper packer in a waste collection point, and scene-shifter in S. K., Neuman’s Theatre in Prague – Libeň. In the fifties he moved from Nymburk to Libeň and, stayed there. In no. 24 on the street Na Hrázi Věčnosti (On the Embankment of Eternity) he, used to meet his friends graphic artist Vladimír Boudník, poet Egon Bondy and many other, personages. And meanwhile, his atomic Schreibmaschine Perkeo churned out under his, keystrokes one text after another. Hrabal was a professional writer since 1963 until his, death., His books, which have been filmed many times, are still being published all over the, world. They were already translated into more than 29 languages., The full length documentary film, which got its name after Hrabal’s favoured, collocation „And so it happened, that...”, features among others film directors Jiří Menzel,, Jan Němec and Petr Koliha, their colleague from theatre Ivo Krobot, academic painter Václav, Špale, publicist Tomáš Mazal, Václav Neckář, Joska Skalník, professor Josef Zumr,, philosopher and Hrabal’s friend and neighbour from Libeň, senior consultant of the, orthopaedic clinic at Bulovka hospital MUDr. Pavel Dungl, poet Egon Bondy, and also drawer, from Zlatý tygr pub Karel Hulata and professor František Dvořák., Attractiveness of the documentary is increased by acted scenes and commentaries of, Oldřich Kaiser in indispensable “kissing” uniform of a train dispatcher.