Director:
Tomáš HodanGuión:
Tomáš HodanCámara:
Jan Baset StřítežskýMúsica:
Jakub KudláčReparto:
Kryštof Hádek, Oldřich Kaiser, Marek Adamczyk, Vladimír Pokorný, Judit Pecháček, Jan Hájek, Gabriela Pyšná, Vladimír Javorský, Jaroslav Plesl (más)Sinopsis(1)
The Giant Mountains, 1913. At the start of a cross-country skiing competition Bohumil Hanč, the greatest Czech cross-country skier of his day, encounters the talented all-rounder Emmerich Rath, whose German origins have been a source of irritation for others throughout his life. The ill-fated race begins and the battle for first place ultimately becomes a battle for survival. Set against the backdrop of the bitterly cold but stunning mountain range, the film tells a dramatic tale of friendship that knows no national boundaries. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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The Last Race es un survival técnicamente muy bien rodado y sin duda muy por encima de la media en el ámbito del cine checo, lo que es de agradecer. Mi única (aunque enorme) crítica se dirige al estilo narrativo elegido, en el que Tomáš Hodan parece haberse preocupado más por cómo conciliar armoniosamente las dos líneas temporales que por asegurarse de narrar de forma eficaz y comprensible el momento crítico de todo el drama. En lugar de ello, oculta información al espectador en el momento, para luego sorprenderle aparentemente con un extraño flashback en un flashback que me dejó confundido durante un segundo en una historia por lo demás comprensible, y en lugar de sentirme bien por haber entendido un momento clave, mi mente se llenó de una serie de preguntas inquisitivas (¿De dónde salió Vrabata de repente? ¿Por qué fue allí en primer lugar? ¿Por qué no se lo dijo a nadie? ¿Por qué donó su abrigo, que él mismo necesitaba para salvarse? ¿Cuál era la continuidad temporal en este caso? ¿Por qué estuvo ausente durante la mayor parte del metraje si es un personaje tan crucial? ¿Por qué Hodan sabotea innecesariamente su propia película con un truco de guión tan extraño?...). Sólo una mancha completamente innecesaria y estúpida en la belleza de una película checa por lo demás buena y muy interesante, a la que al final daré cuatro estrellas, pero quiero decir... podría haber sido mucho mejor.
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A race between Czech and German skiers starts on the ridges of the Krkonoše Mountains. It's an honour, but it soon becomes a race for life and not everyone will make it to the finish line. The Last Race suffers slightly from the fact that it bites into a lot of interesting themes that it fails to develop properly, but at its core, it remains mainly a gritty and unexpectedly proper and intense survival thriller, with technical aspect that far surpass the Czech competition and stand out among the world's top in the genre.
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I am not a sports person, I first encountered the story of Hanč and Vrbata only thanks to The Last Race. I was lured to the cinema by the good trailer, the cast and the story from Czech history. I complain about some films needing to be shortened, but I would have welcomed an extra quarter of an hour in Hodan's film, as I found it to be abbreviated in some places, most noticeable in the line with Vrbata. To put aside my criticisms, I was surprised that while the frame story of the late 1950s revolved around Rath, the 1912-3 line was focused primarily on Hanč. Still, this is a quality film by Czech standards, and in addition to a strong (if at times abbreviated) and (literally) chilling story, it is also technically impressive, especially the cinematography and the remarkable musical score. Of the actors, I was most impressed by Kryštof Hádek and Oldřich Kaiser. A weaker four stars!
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A perfectly engaging film that manages to combine a sports flick, a survival drama, a study of Czech-German relations before the First World War and the dark years of the 1950s. Tomáš Hodan tells the story with equal confidence as a writer and as a director. The race is breathtaking, but it is far from just about that. Emerich Rath is rehabilitated a bit at the expense of Václav Vrbata, but even that is written and filmed so cleverly that it doesn't matter in the end. Kryštof Hádek and Oldřich Kaiser deservedly stand out from the cast, but you will also enjoy a lot of well played supporting roles from Judit Bárdos, Vladimír Javorský and Jaroslav Plesl. I appreciate that the filmmakers were so careful about historical accuracy and everything felt really authentic to me.
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The story deserved more build-up. Maybe it should have concentrated less about the past and more about what happened to the central character's fate in the 1950s. Or maybe showed the absurdity of a man of German origin living in Bohemia and claiming to be Czech. A man who got in everybody's way while doing nothing wrong, just being who he was. The bizarreness of being involved in the filming of what he once personally experienced. So he knew how things were then, and how the communist propaganda presented everything differently than in reality. But then there is definitely enough build-up during the race itself. A deadly coldness and definite fatality ooze from it. IN A NUTSHELL: When frost gets under your fingernails even through the screen.
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