Shameless (Czech: Nestyda), is a 2008 Czech comedy film directed by Jan Hřebejk.[1] Following their collaborations on A Novel for Women and The Holiday Makers, Czech filmmaker Hřebejk and author Michal Viewegh reunited for Shameless, a comic romp based on Viewegh's bestselling Tales of Marriage and Sex. Overall, the film was a commercial success.[2]

Shameless
Film poster
CzechNestyda
Directed byJan Hřebejk
Written byMichal Viewegh
Jan Hřebejk
Jiří Macháček
Produced byRudolf Biermann
Tomáš Hoffman
StarringJiří Macháček
Emília Vášáryová
Simona Babčáková
CinematographyJan Malíř
Edited byVladimír Barák
Production
companies
IN Film, Infinity
Distributed byFalcon
Release date
  • October 9, 2008 (2008-10-09)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryCzech Republic
LanguageCzech

Plot

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Oskar (Jiří Macháček), a popular TV weather forecaster, suddenly wakes up to an altered sense of identity: rather than belonging to easygoing wife Zuzana (a bewildered Simona Babčáková), he feels he ought to belong to the whole wide world – hence the national embarrassment. His first entanglement is with babysitter Kocicka (Eva Kerekéšová), a lean teenybopper who's more attached to her pet turtle than her older lover – at least until he accidentally smothers it in the dryer. Next in line is mature pop icon Nora (Emília Vášáryová), who's about to teach him a thing or two about freedom: the more people you let in, the more alone you end up feeling.

Cast

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  • Jiří Macháček as Oskar
  • Emília Vášáryová as Nora
  • Simona Babčáková as Zuzana
  • Pavel Liška as Matěj
  • Nina Divíšková as Marta, Oskar's mother
  • Pavel Landovský as Bedřich, Oskar's father
  • Eva Kerekéšová as Kočička
  • Martina Krátká as Simona
  • Vojta Husa as Jakub
  • Viktorie Fedorová as Terezka
  • Roman Luknár as Nora's son
  • Andy Hajdu as Nora's son
  • Kryštof Mucha as Robert
  • Marie Látová as Marie
  • Miloš Pokorný as radio speaker
  • Roman Ondráček as radio speaker
  • Peter Kracík as TV7 chief
  • Hana Seidlová as waitress
  • Karla Mráčková as bell-frog
  • Petra Eliáš-Voláková as bell-frog
  • Adam Holý as photographer
  • Renata Vajdáková as Matěj's wife

References

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  1. ^ ObchodyAZ.cz, Miloš Kolář-portály. "Společně VM vás zve na film NESTYDA". NovinyVM (in Czech). Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  2. ^ Halas, Matus (2019-02-12). "Love your neighbor: Nazi soldiers and Femmes Fatales in Czech cinema". Social & Cultural Geography. 20 (2): 242–264. doi:10.1080/14649365.2017.1356363. ISSN 1464-9365.
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