Batalives
6.0
In the 1920s, Tomas Baťa and his stepbrother Jan Antonín Baťa, entrepreneurs from Zlin, Czechoslovakia, began establishing new cities worldwide to expand their business. Over the next decades, about fifty towns were built on their unique social and architectural model, but only a few remain today. Our film explores the lives of people in these surviving “Bata cities”: Zlín in the Czech Republic, Bata-Borovo in Croatia, Batanagar in India, Bataypora in Brazil, and Batadorp in the Netherlands. Characters like Matea, Shona, Bé, Henrik, and Věra, despite their differences, are linked by their shared history. The film questions how the vision of a brilliant business dreamer has evolved nearly 100 years later.
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Cast
8 people
Petr Babinec Director · Karolína Zalabáková Director Lukáš Gargulák Story
Budget $110K · First release April 5, 2018 · Produced in Czechia
Box office
Budget
$109,615
Production
Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně
Production
Česká televize
Production
Czechia
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Original title
Batalives: Baťovské životy
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
Czechia · April 5, 2018
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Croatia
August 23, 2018 · Vukovar Film Festival
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