Journey to Rome
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Vašek learns that he is dying, so he steals a painting and goes to Rome to sell it – he needs money for a healer. Sitting on a train with a fake mustache on his face, he has no idea that he has, in fact, been sent on a spiritual quest of his life by a beautiful girl. His pursuers look as if they were transported from a 1970’s movie, yet his attention is constantly drawn to the other passengers, who pull him into their own stories with no mercy. Vašek slowly gets lost in a colorful chaos of other people’s destinies, opinions and his own dreams. In the end, his train will take some of them to hell, others to enlightenment or a bizarre epiphany. The film takes a humorous view on all the basic philosophical questions we have heard so many times but that we have yet to find the answers to.
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Cast
19 people
Václav Hrzina
Vašek
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Berenika Kohoutová
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Nina Divíšková
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Marek Vajchr
Michal Kolínek
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Odznak Vysočina
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Jan Englert
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Katyn
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Miroslav Donutil
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Zelary
Johana Ožvold
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Juraj Herz
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The Flat
Jiří Najvert
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Zdeněk Hudeček
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Igor Chmela
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Tomasz Mielnik Director · Vít Poláček Screenplay Martin Klusák Composer
First release July 4, 2015 · Produced in Poland, Czechia · Production Česká televize, FAMU
Production
Background Films
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Česká televize
Production · Distribution
FAMU
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EasyBusyProductions
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Magiclab
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Poland · Czechia
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Original title
Cesta do Říma
Original language
Czech
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Czech
Release dates
Czechia · July 4, 2015
Premiere · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Czechia · August 5, 2015
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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