Charlatan (2020 film)

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Charlatan
File:Charlatan poster.jpg
Official poster
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
Produced by Sarka Cimbalova
Written by Marek Epstein
Starring Ivan Trojan
Josef Trojan
Juraj Loj
Jaroslava Pokorná
Music by Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz
Cinematography Martin Strba
Production
company
Marlene Film Production
Distributed by Cinemart
Release dates
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Running time
 118 minutes
Country Czech Republic
Ireland
Slovakia
Poland
Language Czech
Budget 58.9 Million CZK[2]
Box office 38.2 Million CZK[3]

Charlatan (Czech: Šarlatán) is a 2020 Czech biographical drama directed by Agnieszka Holland. It is about the healer Jan Mikolášek (1889–1973), who cured hundreds of people using plant-based remedies.[4] It was selected as the Czech entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards.[5][6]

Plot

The life of Jan Mikolášek, a well-known and successful Czech healer, who diagnosed and healed people using his intuition and his familiarity with plants. His remedies and prescriptions, although mostly plant-based, included lifestyle and dietary changes. He healed not only poor people from the villages but also many well-known people, including the Czechoslovak President, Antonín Zápotocký. Mikolášek's diagnostic methods and notorious healing got the attention of Czechoslovakia's Communist regime. He was finally arrested after strychnine was found in the bodies of two men he had treated.[7]

Cast

Production

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The film was a Czech-Irish-Polish-Slovak co-production. The venture included Marlene Film Production (Czech Republic), Kevan Van Thompson, Mike Downey (Chairman of European Film Academy) and Sam Taylor - both from Film & Music Entertainment Ltd (Ireland), Madants (Poland) and Furia Film (Slovakia) Others involved were Ceska televize, Barrandov Studio, Studio Metrage, Moderator Inwestycje, Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska, CertiCon, Vladimír a Taťána Maříkovi and Magic Lab.

Shooting started on 1 April 2019 at Mladá Boleslav Prison.[8][9] Principal photography took 36 Days.[10] Shooting concluded in July 2019.[11] The film entered postproduction on 4 July 2019.[12]

Release

The film premiered at Berlin International Film Festival on 27 February 2020. It was set to enter distribution for Czech cinemas on 26 March 2020.[13] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, distribution was delayed to 20 August 2020.[14][15] The film was attended by 59,073 people during its first weekend in Czech Theatres.[16] Despite strong Competition the film had strong attendance during its second weekend with 37 000 People while being narrowly beaten only by Tenet.[17] It was chosen to be part of 26th Kolkata International Film Festival January 2021 lineup and shown on 11 January 2021 at Cinema Centenary Building of West Bengal government.

Reception

The film has received generally positive reviews from Czech critics holding 74% at Kinobox.cz based on 12 reviews.[18] The film was also positively received by foreign reviews[19] holding 88% at Rotten Tomatoes based on 8 reviews with average rating 60%.[20]

"Charlatan is a film that does not quite satisfy the curiosity it arouses", states Peter Bradshaw in his review for The Guardian from the Berlinale. "Was Mikolášek a 'charlatan'? Rightly or wrongly, the movie is vehement that he was not. The drama in no way resides in any lingering ambiguity. This Mikolášek is a man of principle and intuitive genius who presides over a flourishing practice. (...) He is played with fiercely controlled stoicism by the veteran Czech actor Ivan Trojan, whose son Josef plays the young Mikolášek. (...) This is a forceful, capable movie with an interesting story to tell but its potency consists in a handful of gripping episodes, the most startling being when the young Mikolášek has developed a love of herbs and a vocation for healing."[21]

On 3 August 2020 Charlatan was chosen to be part of Telluride Film Festival 2020 lineup.[22] It was also recommended for a nomination for the 33rd European Film Awards by European Film Academy.[23]

See also

References

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