A Prominent Patient
A Prominent Patient is a 2016 Czech-Slovak biographical drama film directed by Julius Ševčík. It was screened in the Berlinale Special section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. It won twelve Czech Lions including the Czech Lion for Best Film. The film was first screened in Lucerna Kino.
Plot
The film is set from 1937 to 1939. It is loosely based on the life of Jan Masaryk when he was the Czechoslovak ambassador to the United Kingdom. The film starts with the death of the first Czechoslovak president and Jan's father Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. Jan becomes Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Czechoslovakia faces aggression from Nazi Germany, which supports the Sudeten Germans. Masaryk tries to persuade the United Kingdom to help his homeland but the Munich Agreement is eventually settled and Czechoslovakia is forced to give up its borderlands to Germany. Jan Masaryk is devastated and leaves to the United States. He ends up in a sanatorium due to his psychological problems. He is treated by Doctor Stein. Their relationship is problematic because Stein is German. Masaryk is also helped by an American journalist, Marcia Davenport.
Awards
Cast
- Aneta Vignerová
- Antonín Mašek
- Arly Jover
- Dermot Crowley
- Emília Vášáryová
- Eva Herzigová
- Gina Bramhill
- Hanns Zischler
- Hoji Fortuna
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- Ivan Sochor
- Ján Greššo
- Ján Jackuliak
- Jaromír Janeček
- Jiří Ornest
- Jiří Vyorálek
- Joan Blackham
- Karel Roden
- Kateřina Lojdová
- Katya Boirand
- Lenka Burianová
- Marek Dobeš
- Marek Zelinka
- Martin Hofmann
- Michael Pitthan
- Milton Welsh
- Oldřich Kaiser
- Paul Nicholas
- Peter Hosking
- Pierre Peyrichout
- Robert Jašków
- Robert Nebřenský
- Rostislav Osička
- Štěpánka Fingerhutová
- Tim Preece
- Vladimír Hajdu
- Zdeněk Sedláček
- Zuzana Kronerová
More details
| author | Alex Koenigsmark Julius Ševčík Petr Kolecko |
|---|---|
| award | Czech Lion for Best Film |
| director | Julius Ševčík |
| editor | Marek Opatrný |
| genre | drama historical |
| keywords | american journalist czechoslovak film star first czechoslovak republic force jan masaryk marcia davenport munich agreement nazi germany sudeten germans tomáš garrigue masaryk united kingdom |
| musicBy | Kryštof Marek |
| producer | Julius Ševčík Rudolf Biermann |
| productionCompany | Arte Czech Television Radio and Television of Slovakia |
| theme | biographical drama |