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Stepan Altrichter – Filmmaker – Schmitke

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets filmmaker Stepan Altrichter, whose film Schmitke was screened in the New Europe Competition of the 22nd Febiofest – Prague International Film Festival.

Stepan talks with us about where the inspiration for Schmitke came from, how he ended up casting Peter Kurth in the leading role for his film and how it is important to know the rules before you can break them.

Aside from talking about Schmitke, which also marks his feature directorial debut, he also reveals to us a little something about a future project he has in mind…

Schmitke is an old German wind turbine engineer. One day, he is dispatched to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix an old squeaking wind turbine. His colleague disappears and mysterious things begin to happen in the forest.

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Film: Illégal

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International Show: Intro

International Show: Marisella Rossetti – Directorate-General for Communication of the LUX Prize

International Show: Bénédicte Prot – FRED at School French Co-Ordinator

International Show: Oddny Sen – FRED at School Icelandic Coordinator

International Show: Wrap-Up

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Listen to the introduction to the first international FRED at School show. It includes a brief synopsys and professional analysis of the film, as well as a “pan-European” review from some of the students that watched and reviewed as part of the project

Film: Illégal

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International Show: Full show

International Show: Marisella Rossetti – Directorate-General for Communication of LUX Prize

International Show: Bénédicte Prot – FRED at School French coordinator

International Show: Oddny Sen – FRED at School Icelandic coordinator

International Show: Wrap-Up

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Name of school: Robert Napier School

Location: Medway, United Kingdom

Film: Akadimia Platonos (2009)

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The wrap-up of the international FRED at School show on the film “Illégal”

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International Show: Full show

International Show: Federico Spoletti – Founder of FRED Film Radio

International Show: Marisella Rossetti – Directorate-General for Communication of LUX Prize

International Show: Bénédicte Prot – FRED at School French coordinator

International Show: Oddny Sen – FRED at School Icelandic coordinator

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Oddny Sen – Icelandic co-ordinator – Fred at School

Film: Illégal

Click on the text below to listen to the rest of this FRED at School international show:

International Show: Full show

International Show: Intro

International Show: Marisella Rossetti – Directorate-General for Communication of LUX Prize

International Show: Bénédicte Prot – FRED at School French coordinator

International Show: Wrap-Up

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Bénédicte Prot – French co-ordinator – Fred at School

Film: Illégal

Click on the text below to listen to the rest of this FRED at School international show:

International Show: Full show

International Show: Intro

International Show: Marisella Rossetti – Directorate-General for Communication of LUX Prize

International Show: Oddny Sen – FRED at School Icelandic coordinator

International Show: Wrap-Up

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Marisella Rossetti – Directorate-General for Communication – LUX Prize

Film: Illégal

Click on the text below to listen to the rest of this FRED at School international show:

International Show: Full show

International Show: Intro

International Show: Bénédicte Prot – FRED at School French coordinator

International Show: Oddny Sen – FRED at School Icelandic coordinator

International Show: Wrap-Up

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Tomas Vach – producer – Schmitke

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Tomas Vach, producer of the film “Schmitke” from the 22nd Febiofest – Prague International Film Festival.

Tomas Vach talks with us about how the collaboration with director Stepan Altrichter and the challenges of making the transition from short film to feature film.

Plot: Julius Schmitke is an elderly engineer whose lonely life consists mainly of unexciting work, a chatty young colleague, and the occasional strange allure of the forest. When he is assigned to repair an old turbine, which he had designed and which inexplicably keeps breaking down, he is not exactly excited about his trip to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains.

The weird area full of deep forests, decayed mines and equally weird people does not fill him with trust, but when his colleague mysteriously disappears overnight, even Schmitke must head into the trees cloaked in fog. Featuring intertwining comedy exaggeration and mysterious atmosphere, the film was created as a Czech-German co-production.

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Urszula Antoniak – filmmaker – Nude Area

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets filmmaker Urszula Antoniak, whose film “Nude Area” screened at the 22nd Febiofest – Prague International Film Festival.

Urszula Antoniak talks with us about the initial inspiration for the film – which came from an image, the challenges of making a film about fifteen year old girls and their erotic awakening and also runs through some brave choices she made in making Nude Area, such as the lack of dialogue and the element of playing with what’s real and what’s not.

Plot: Expectation, fulfilment, and disappointment are fragments of love, which establish the basic story line. This radical film essay offers a complex view of female desire and a detailed survey of the intimacy of two teenage girls who are divided by their background as well as social class. Yet, within the bounds of the women’s sauna, where their mutual desire grows stronger, the girls are equal.

The budding relationship is introduced without words, which are substituted for by communication through gestures and looks. The absence of dialogue makes the film universal, just like the desires of men and women. The hypnotic portrait of female attractiveness and sensual seduction is electrifying and visually refined, just as in the director’s previous film, Code Blue (2011).

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