2nd press release

 2^nd press release

Prague, 14^th March, 2012

19^th Days of European Film festival starts in less than one month

Prague: Světozor and Lucerna cinemas on April 12–19, Brno: Art cinema on April 20-26.

The Echoes of the Days of European Film:

Boskovice (April 25–27, 2012), Uherské Hradiště (April 25–27, 2012), Jablonec nad Nisou (April 25–29, 2012), Veselí nad Moravou (April 25–27, 2012), Ostrava (April 28–May 2, 2012).

The 19th Days of European Film (DEF) festival will be opened in Prague’s Světozor cinema on April 12, 2012 with the Danish-Czech historical film A Royal Affair that won two Silver Bear awards at the International Film Festival in Berlin this year (script: Rasmus Heisterberg and Nikolaj Arcel, the best actor in a leading role: Mikkel Boe Følsgaard). The film was made in Czech co-production and it was shot mainly in the Czech Republic. Mads Mikkelsen, known from the James Bond film Casino Royale, appears in a leading role in this film directed by Danish Nikolaj Arcel. The film will be personally introduced by the Silver Bear winner Mikkel Boe Følsgaard at the festival’s ceremonial opening.

The press screening of A Royal Affair takes place in the Atlas cinema (Sokolovská 371/1, Prague 8) at 14:00 on Thursday, March 15, 2012. Aerofilms, its distributor in the Czech Republic, cordially invites you to the event. Please, confirm your participation to e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The Prague part of the Days of European Film will close with Coriolanus, a modern adaptation of one of William Shakespeare’s plays, on April 19, 2012. Its director, British Ralph Fiennes, has chosen a work by his compatriot for his debut as a film director, and he has joined forces with scriptwriter John Logan (Gladiator, The Aviator).

“Though the film can at first sight look like an ordinary action movie (also thanks to the casting of actor Gerard Butler), the appearances are definitively deceptive in this case – Fiennes approaches Shakespeare with respect, which he also confirms by the casting of brilliant actors playing in Shakespeare’s dramas, such as Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Cox,” Zdeněk Bláha, the festival’s programme manager, adds.

The www.eurofilmfest.cz website with detailed information on the 19th DEF (the festival’s programme, a catalogue to be downloaded, news etc.) is available as of today. This year’s festival for the first time offers an online sale of tickets that has been launched by Prague’s Světozor and Lucerna cinemas. Now you can not only book tickets on www.eurofilmfest.cz , but also buy them online.

At the same time, we would like to invite you to a PRESS CONFERENCE to be held in the Mirror Lounge of the Černín Palace (Loretánské nám. 5, Prague 1) at 10:00 on Wednesday, March 28, 2012. More information is available in the enclosed invitation.

The festival is held under the aegis of Czech Culture Minister Alena Hanákova, the European Commission Representation in the Czech Republic and Bohuslav Svoboda, Mayor of the Capital City of Prague.

The festival is organised by embassies and cultural institutes of European countries, the Capital of Prague and the EC Representation in the Czech Republic,

With support of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and The European Parliament – Information Office in the Czech Republic.

The festival’s general partner is FILM +.

The main media partners are public Czech Television and Czech Radio 1-Radiožurnál.

The media partners are Lidové noviny, Lidovky.cz, Expresradio, Respekt, Student Agency and Šupito.

Contacts:

PR DEF:

Mgr. Michaela Hofmanová

Tel.: +420 732 372 424

E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

www.eurofilmfest.cz

Post address: Národní 28, 110 00 Praha 1