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THE LAST ARISTOCRAT

POSLEDNÍ ARISTOKRATKA

By Jiří VEJDĚLEK

FILM KOLEKTIV - as PROD

Comedy - Completed 2019

Frank Kostka’s family has flown in from New York to Czech Republic to take over their noble family’s Bohemian seat – Kostka Castle. There they meet a backward caretaker, Josef, a jovial housekeeper, Mrs. Tichá, and the hypochondriac maintenance man Lebeau.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- Languages
- CZECH
- Duration
- 110 mn
- Director(s)
- Jiří VEJDĚLEK
- Writer(s)
- Jiří VEJDĚLEK, Tereza DUSOVÁ
- Cast
- Hynek ČERMÁK, Tatiana DYKOVÁ, Eliška BALZEROVÁ, Martin PECHLÁT, Yvona STOLAŘOVÁ, Vojtěch KOTEK, Zdeněk PIŠKULA, Tatiana PAUHOFOVÁ
- Producer(s)
- Silvie MICHAJLOVA (Evolution Films), Ondřej ZIMA (Evolution Films), Pavel BERČÍK (Evolution Films), Zuzana MISTRÍKOVÁ (PubRes), Ľubica ORECHOVSKÁ (PubRes)
- Synopsis
- Native New Yorker Frank (Hynek Čermák) has reacquired his noble family’s ancient Bohemian seat – Kostka Castle, which he has not visited in 40 years. And so, he gets ready to make a glorious homecoming with his daughter, Maria (Yvona Stolařová), and temperamental wife, Vivien (Tatiana Dyková). But the newly minted aristocrats have no knowledge of local custom or the ins-and-outs of the 1990s Czech Republic, and all they know of castle life comes from their relatives’ age-old yarns. The family arrives with their lawyer, Benda (Vojtěch Kotek), only to discover that Kostka is in a state of gradual decline and cut off from the world around it. Its only permanent inhabitants are a backward caretaker, Josef (Martin Pechlát), a jovial housekeeper, Mrs. Tichá (Eliška Balzerová), and the hypochondriac maintenance man Krása (Pavel Liška). As the castle personnel slowly awakes from the heavy slumber of the post-revolution 90s, the Kostka family faces the difficult decision of whether to move back to America and sell the generations-old castle, or try to save it. A film based on the book of the same name by Evžen Boček.