Is Everyone Right? Karel Floss and the Others

A multiple portrait of the development of Czech post-November thinking through a phone call by the Floss brothers about a letter they intend to write to the Pope.

Všichni mají pravdu? Karel Floss a ti druzí
Czechia 2015
  • English
124 min.
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This film is a multi-portrait of a development of Czech thinking and feeling in a post-communist era after 1989 centralized around a philosopher and leftist Christian Karel Floss. His ideas about God, truth and politics circle as satellites around statements of strongly opposing personalities from Noam Chomsky, Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek over Tomas Halik, Milan Knížák and Vaclav Klaus to Daniel Kroupa, Milan Kohout and Andrew Slačálek. Helena Všetečková’s film with subtle irony builds on a semantic counterpoint, situational humour and alienating formal elements. The film creates an audiovisual riverbed through which flows a canalized anger of a nation resembling a child who is learning to think and knows not what to relate first – because in a sense, actually „Everyone is right.“

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Director: Helena Všetečková
Screenplay: Helena Všetečková
Cinematography: Helena Všetečková, Helena Papírníková, Jan Březina, Vojtěch Votýpka
Sound: Helena Papírníková, Martin Kuhn, Matěj Chrudina
Editing: Helena Všetečková
Producer: Mikuláš Novotný, Helena Všetečková, Marek Jindra, Jakub Wagner
Cast: Karel Floss, Alain Badiou, Joseph Ratzinger-Benedikt XVI., Dominik Duka, Noam Chomsky, Tomáš Halík
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