
Czech Republic,
100
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2008 min.
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Dir. Petr Zelenka
A film about a Czech theater company running a dress rehearsal of their distilled, intense adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov in a crumbling Polish factory? While a maintenance man, agonizing because his young son is in the hospital, watches from a distance? How could that possibly be anything but dull? The Karamazovs is, in fact, the opposite of dull—intelligent, energetic, and tragic, like watching a freight train full of kittens running headlong into a missile filled with hope. Hope gets exploded and the kittens all die, but it’s amazing to watch.