On the pageant in Karlovy Fluctuate on June 29, the movie The Alcoholic’s Pocket book, shot by director Dan Svátek with Tereza Ramba within the function of a girl combating dependancy, was offered. The actress admitted that she didn’t initially wish to painting the character within the story based mostly on actual occasions. Now the function returned to her on her birthday: the filmmakers gave her a cake for her thirty fifth birthday with the picture of the movie, that’s, her face marked by drink and despair.
The alcoholic’s pocket book was created based mostly on Michaela Duffková’s weblog and e book, by which she described her personal journey to the underside of alcohol dependancy and again to the highest. Its writer Marta Fenclová, the writer of the draft Michaela Duffková and the director Dan Svátek have been tinkering with the script for 4 years.
“I learn the script and the weblog, that are very sturdy, however as a result of I’ve two younger kids, I believed I could not do it,” Ramba defined on the movie’s presentation why she was reluctant to tackle the emotionally demanding function. In the long run, her mom, husband, supervisor and director Svátek satisfied her.
“We tried to find the restrict of authenticity that’s doable within the movie,” the actress described how, with skilled assist, she was searching for a strategy to play the character of an alcoholic whereas remaining mentally wholesome and functioning usually. “You are an actor who makes breakfast for the youngsters within the morning and cooks dinner for them within the night, however you possibly can have bruises and roll within the mud in the course of the day and it is simply true. For the primary time in my life, I’m standing right here in entrance of you journalists and I’ve no nervousness in me, as a result of irrespective of how the movie seems, it fulfilled its function for me, it turned completely “magic” there and it modified my life. And I really feel that the boundary of authenticity that we have been making an attempt to attain can’t be discovered any higher.”
Hanuš: It was stunning
Ramba because the cinematic Misha goes via a change from a self-confident and “non-dependent” girl to a wreck and again once more. “I noticed the change, it was fascinating, highly effective,” mentioned Oskar Hes, who performs her brother in The Alcoholic Pocket book. “It was extremely unhappy as a result of I do know lots of people within the business who’ve been buzzing about consuming. Once I checked out her, it was stunning,” described Miroslav Hanuš, who performs Míša’s father-in-law.
Dan Svátek already handled the subject of alcohol within the movie Úsměvy sadných měnů, which he shot based mostly on the autobiographical e book of the author Josef Formánek. Based on the director, the tales of alcoholic girls attain us far much less usually than related tales of males, as a result of “girls do not wish to speak about it.” He perceives Duffková’s destiny as “a pattern story of how girls most frequently get addicted.”
Duffková, whose weblog was awarded by Magnesia Litera, devotes herself to schooling after a profitable battle with alcohol and based the remedy middle Alkos. The film The Alcoholic Pocket book is meant to have the same overlap. “We do not need it to finish with the closing credit,” mentioned co-producer Tomáš Jindříšek. The creators of the movie are launching the Girls with Braveness marketing campaign for the undertaking, which goals to attract consideration to a society-wide however on the similar time “invisible” downside. “Michaela Duffková was the primary girl with braveness, we wish to present different girls’s tales, in addition to methods to assist and in addition open a debate in regards to the mandatory systemic modifications. To this finish, we’re launching a web site with tales and a information to assist. The marketing campaign may even run on social networks and within the media. As well as, we created a public crowdfunding assortment on the Donio portal. Supporters, fans and everybody who finds the subject vital can assist the de-tabooing of the whole challenge and the opening of dialogue within the public area,” mentioned Jindříšek.
An Alcoholic’s Pocket book is premiering in cinemas 11 July.
