Skokan movie poster
BC Sklonar in use for the poster for Petr Václav’s 2017 movie Skokan. From production company Mimesis:
Skokan, 28 years-old man, finished his stay in prison. He is given the clothes in which he was arrested few years earlier. Outside, in front of the wall decorated with barbed wire, the street is empty. Nobody expects him. In the city where he lands, he has nowhere to go. No house. No work. His family does not want him. Overnight, he decides to leave everything in order to launch his star career, and heads for the Cannes Film Festival.
Director Petr Václav calls Skokan a documentary film with fairy-tale aspects, mainly because of its emphasis on authenticity in telling the fictional tale of a Romani recidivist in search of career opportunities at the Cannes film festival. The main character is played a by real ex-con, Julius Oračko, whom the filmmakers got out of prison on parole shortly before the start of filming. The film was shot with just a rough script, which was fine-tuned on the set. The scenes from Cannes were shot during the festival. The ending, which recalls the liberation of an enchanted princess, again feels like a fairy tale.
