RESORT

By Martin HRUBÝ

BACKGROUND FILMS - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2015

In the 1960s an architecturally unique resort built on the banks of Orlík reservoir became the secret getaway of the communist establishment, then later passed into the hands of notorious businessmen during the early days of unrestrained capitalism.

Festivals
& Awards

Karlovy Vary 2015
documentary competition
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Documentary, First film, Art - Culture
    • Countries
    • CZECH REPUBLIC
    • Languages
    • CZECH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 26 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Martin HRUBÝ
    • Writer(s)
    • Martin HRUBÝ
    • Producer(s)
    • Mikuláš NOVOTNÝ (BACKGROUND FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • At the beginning of the 1960s a secret summer getaway for the communist establishment was developed on the banks of Orlík reservoir. The architecturally unique resort was designed by the most progressive Czech names in the field – they had been purposefully imprisoned to force them to work on state projects. In the days of unrestrained capitalism following the revolution, the site came into the hands of now notorious businessmen. This nontraditional documentary portrait, suffused with an air of mystery, captures the genius loci and turbulent history of a hidden summer paradise that was left off every map.