Insects (film)

Insects
Poster
Directed byJan Švankmajer
Written byJan Švankmajer
Based onPictures from the Insects' Life by Karel Čapek and Josef Čapek
StarringJiří Lábus, Jan Budař, Kamila Magálová
Production
companies
Athanor
Czech Television
PubRes
Distributed byCinemArt
PubRes
Release dates
  • 26 January 2018 (2018-01-26) (IFF Rotterdam)[1]
  • 19 February 2018 (2018-02-19) (Czech Republic)
Running time
98 minutes
CountriesCzech Republic
Slovakia
LanguageCzech
Budget40 million CZK[2]

Insects (Czech: Hmyz) is a surreal comedy film directed by Jan Švankmajer, the film is based on the play Pictures from the Insects' Life by Karel and Josef Čapek.[2] Švankmajer stated that the film would be his last.[3] It premiered on 26 January 2018 at International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film follows amateur actors rehearsing Pictures from the Insects' Life. The actors find themselves living out their characters' roles and hallucinating insects. Insects is intercut with the creative process of the film itself and interviews with the actors about their dreams.

  1. ^ kinobox.cz, team at. "Když brouk zabije kvůli nevěře berušku. Švankmajerův poslední film slibuje hodně netradiční podívanou". www.kinobox.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Insects (2017)". FilmAffinity. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Variety was invoked but never defined (see the help page).