Alois Nebel

by Tomáš Luňák

Alois Nebel

Synopsis

It is the end of summer, 1989. Alois Nebel works as a train dispatcher at a small railway station in the Sudetenland, a mountainous region on the Czechoslovak border. He is a loner who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the loneliness of the station tranquil - except when the fog rolls in. Then he hallucinates, seeing ghosts and shadows from the dark past of this region where after WWII harsh revenge was exacted on the German population.

Alois cannot get rid of these nightmares and with the help of the railway worker Wachek, who is eyeing Alois’ job, he eventually ends up in a sanatorium. There he gets to know The Mute, a mysterious man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. Not even electroshocks would make him speak and the police is unable to find out why he came to the Sudetenland or who he was looking for. One day The Mute takes his chance and escapes into the woods.

Alois gets better and leaves the sanatorium. But things have changed outside. The Berlin wall has been torn down and the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia fell. Without a job and a place to stay, Alois does not know what to do. He decides to go to the Prague railway headquarters to seek help. There he finds the love of his life, Květa the toilet custodian, and returns to the mountains to meet The Mute and fight the ghosts which have been haunting him for so long.

Director

Born 30.8. 1974 in Zlín, Czech Republic
Biography:
Tomáš Luňák studied animation direction at the Zlín Film School and Prague Film Faculty FAMU. Since graduating he has directed a number of music videos and promotional films. Alois Nebel is his feature film debut.

Filmography:

2006  Čtvrtek, pátek (Thusday, Friday, short)
2000  Akrobat (Acrobat, short)
1998  Expedice (The Expedition, short)
1995  Šepot (The Whisper, short)

Cast

Miroslav Krobot - Alois Nebel
Marie Ludvíková - Květa
Karel Roden - The Mute
Leoš Noha - Wachek
Alois Švehlík - Wachek's father
Tereza Voříšková - Dorothe

 

Crew

Director: Tomáš Luňák
Screenplay: Jaroslav Rudiš, Jaromír 99 (based on the graphic novel „Alois Nebel")
Designer: Jaromír 99
Music: Petr Kružík
Director of photography: Jan Baset Střítežský
Editor: Petr Říha
Sound designer: Viktor Ekrt, Ondřej Ježek
Set designer: Henrich Boraros
Costume designer: Katarína Hollá
Animation and VFX supervisor: Noro Držiak
Postproduction supervisor: Aleš Baumgartner
Head animator: Pavla Dudová
Head background artist: Johana Ziková
Head composer: Tomáš Hájek
Producer: Pavel Strnad
Co-producers: Thanassis Karathanos, Karl Baumgartner (Pallas Films) Henrich Držiak (Tobogang),Jaroslav Kučera (Česká televize),Vít Komrzý (UPP), Radim Janeš, Pavel Rejholec (Soundsquare)
Line producer: Milan Kuchynka
Production manager - shooting: Marta Dudáková
Production manager - animation: Veronika Lerchová

 

Technical Data

Format: DCP, 35mm / 24fps / 1:1,85 / Black/white / Dolby Digital
Length: 81 min.
Original language: Czech

 

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