COMEBACK

documentary, 85 minutes, premiere: MFF Karlove Vary, 4.7.2014

The story of a repeat criminals‘reintegration trappedd in a vicious circle. After years spent in Slovakia’s best guarded prison, you are out. The everyday drill you were bound to obey changes overnight. You know that none of your inmates ever managed to bounce back out there. Fifteen or twenty years from behind the bars go amiss. Once out, you are empty-handed. No money earned. No family left, no home either. Finally free, you have no idea how to find a bus stop or how to go home. You don’t have one, in fact. Your former friends have a status, a job, a place to live, a wife and children, but you have to start from the scratch. Baffled, you observe what’s new to you, women, cars, smartphones, fashion – all of it has changed, but you remain the same. You learn to use a mobile, to catch up. You apply for a job, but your record is as long as a Tesco roll. Prison has become your home.

Directed by: Miro Remo 
Director of photography: Jaro Vaľko, Mário Ondriš, Ivo Miko 
Screenplay: Juro Šlauka, Miro Remo 
Edit: Marek Kráľovský 
Music: David Kollar 
Sound: Lukáš Kasprzyk 
Production: AH production, VŠMU, RTVS, Miro Remo 
Supervision: Vlado Balco 
Assistant director: Juro Šlauka 
Special effects: Marek Ježo 
Sound recording: Boris Varga, Mišo Džadoň, Martin Králik 
Cast: Zlatko Šimkovič, Miroslav Koreň, Miroslava Abelová  

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Awards

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CINEMATIK 2014 - AWARD OF THE MAYOR OF PIEŠŤANY
Opens external link in new windowCINEMATIC - 8th International Film Festival Piešťany
Opens external link in new windowhttp://www.cinematik.sk/en/nezaradene-en/edge-great-beauty-win-cinematik/ 

FINÁLE PLZEŇ 2015 - SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY FOR THE "UNIQUE OBSERVATION OF THE CONCLUSION WORLD AS THE CYCLE OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT."

THE BEST FOREIGN FILM AT 3RD. IFF OLSZTYN "PRISON MOVIE" IN POLAND. "THE GOOD VILLAIN STATUETTE" 

BEST FILM INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - CINEDOC - TBILISI
Opens external link in new windowhttp://www.cinedoc-tbilisi.com/

Screenings

Opens external link in new window8th "CINEMA VERITE" Iran International Documentary Film Festival
30.11-7.12 2014, Tehran, Iran

Opens external link in new windowSTANICA, cultural node
21.10. 17:00 a 20:00, Žilina-Záriečie, Slovakia

Opens external link in new windowCINEMA LUMIERE
official slovak premiere
15.10.2014, Bratislava, Slovakia

Opens external link in new windowPOCITY FILM FEST 2014
10-13.10.2014, Prešov, Slovakia

Opens external link in new windowCINEMATIC - 8th International Film Festival Piešťany
slovak festival premiere

10-15.9.2014, Piešťany

Opens external link in new window49. Karlove vary - medzinárodný filmový festival
world premiere

6.9.2014 18:30, Cinema Čas, Karlove Vary
7.9.2014 14:00, Cinema Drahomira, Karlove Vary

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