Writer Mariusz Szczygieł recently pointed out that in Poland Czechs are seen as people, who always have plenty of time, while the Polish are more predatory, but I have a completely opposite impression. We had to have two crews and deal with the different dynamic of the Czech and the Polish crew.

The interpreter would have been constantly disturbing the shooting, if we hadn’t found a very sophisticated solution where Karel was permanently wearing a wireless earbud and his interpreter was hiding somewhere out of sight.įR: The shooting was difficult because we were working in two different language environments. But we had to translate every word for Karel. Only Filip does, he speaks about ten languages, he is the perfect prototype of a polyglot. VK: It was a box inside a box, a movie inside a movie, and we didn’t know the language of the country where we were shooting it because Karel doesn’t speak Polish and me neither. What made the shooting so complicated? Can you be more specific? Although I was initially determined to be neither mentally nor physically burdened with the camera, it just turned out this way… The shooting of this film was so complex and difficult in terms of its form that anything automatic between me and Filip came in handy. We also knew that we would work better as a team with me behind the camera because we were used to it. Vít Klusák (VK): It was actually an improvised that I was behind the camera because after the very first day of shooting we unexpectedly had to say goodbye to our cameraman and there was no one else around in Poland who could take his place. With him, we thoroughly discussed the details of the Polish situation as well as the choice of the film’s protagonists, who will enable us to speak about it.

My role was to communicate with people in Poland and also with researchers – Polish participants in workshops organized by the Institute of Documentary Film, including our main collaborator Konrad Szołajský. How do you work in your team? Do you have clearly defined roles? For instance, that Vít Klusák is behind the camera?įilip Remunda (FR): When we were shooting Czech Peace we had this arrangement with Vít behind the camera.

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