In a remote part of country there is a severely guarded fortress. What is it that is so strictly guarded in the fortress? In the whole region the dreadful fear prevails. At the end of the gripping story it turns out that nothing is guarded in the fortress. The hero of the story Ewald who finds that out and who refuses to accept whatever compromise has to be crushed and the public secret must remain secret because those, who live on this nonsense, would lose raison d’etre for their existence. The archetypal story of Ewald refers to the past years of the Communist regime but its timeless existential dimension goes beyond the scope of any concrete historic situation.
Ewald
důstojník
Lýdie
Petrásek
farář
úředník
funkcionář
funkcionář
Alexandr Kliment (Monopol – povídka)
Václav Hrubín
Olga Vyleťalová
FAUNA-FILM
Emil Bratršovský (fotograf)
Pevnost
Pevnost
The Fortress
La forteresse
film
featuretheatrical distribution
drama, psychological
Czech Republic, France
1994
1994
festival premiere 22 September 1994 (42. mezinárodní filmový festival San Sebastián, Španělsko)
premiere 24 November 1994 /recommended for 12 and over/
There is no point in a defencelessness unless in produces sacrifice. But just like that, for no reason at all... About the clash of an individual with the omnipotent machinery.
KF a. s., Studio 558 – Synergia Film (KF a. s.), Margo Films Paris
feature film
96 min
35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech, Slovak
without subtitles
Czech
Festival: Mezinárodní filmový festival Sainte-Thérèse
1995
Sainte-Thérèse / Canada
Festival: Mezinárodní filmový festival Štrasburk
1995
Štrasburk / France
Festival: Mezinárodní filmový festival San Sebastián
1995
San Sebastián / Spain
Exhibition: Těrlické filmové léto – 3. přehlídka polských a českých filmů
1995
Těrlicko / Czech Republic
Festival: Mezinárodní filmový festival Casablanca
1995
Casablanca / Morocco
György Cserhalmi
Festival: Mezinárodní filmový festival Lisabon
1995
Lisabon / Portugal
Festival: 42. mezinárodní filmový festival San Sebastián
1994
San Sebastián / Spain
