Angel Exit
Andel Exit
Czech Republic
2000
100 Min
Color
1.66:1
Czech
Synopsis
Young Mikes lives near the Prague intersection at Andil in a building populated with people in similar dire straits. At present he is trying to break free of his former lifestyle. To this end he hooks up with a nice neighbour named Jana who may represent for him a way into the world of normal people. But his friend Lukas and girlfriend Kaja drag him back to drugs and theft. On a trip to South Africa, he and Kaja succeed in making a new drug. When he returns home everyone forces the resistant Mikes to try and recreate the lucky experiment once more. The drug made by mixing certain ingredients with the couple’s love, pain and envy, of course brings happiness to no one. In the end, however, Mikes gets one more chance at life, though there is no guarantee that he’ll be able to take advantage of it. –Inbaseline
Director
Vladimír Michálek
Vladimír Michálek (born November 2, 1956, Mladá Boleslav) is a Czech film director and screenwriter. Michálek graduated from Czech film Academy FAMU, Prague, in 1992. Starting during his academic study he was filming documentaries. He joined the Barrandov Studios as assistant director, where he worked with Andrew Birkin (Burning Secret), Reinhard Hauff, Ted Kotcheff (The Shooter), Margarethe von Trotta and Bernhard Wicky. He is married and has three children.
1994 was the year of the release of his first feature film, Amerika, a free adaptation of the Kafka novel. In 1996 Forgotten Light followed, a film adaption of the Jakub Deml novel. The film ran on the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, as did this next movie, Sekal Has to Die, two years later. The latter won ten Czech Lion awards, including Best Direction, and succeeded Forgotten Light as the Czech Oscar-nominee. As with America, he wrote the screenplay for his film Angel Exit 2000. The film won the 2002 Daring Digital… read more
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