Year of the Devil

Year of the Devil

Directed by	Petr Zelenka
Produced by	Pavel Strnad
Written by	Petr Zelenka
Starring	Jaromír Nohavica, Karel Plíhal, František Černý, Karel Holas & Čechomor group, Jaz Coleman, Jan Prent
Music by	Jaromír Nohavica, Čechomor, Karel Holas
Edited by	David Charap
Production company	Negativ
Release dates	2002
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Czech Republic
Language	Czech English Dutch

Year of the Devil (Czech: Rok ďábla) is a 2002 Czech Mockumentary film directed by Petr Zelenka. It stars musicians who act as themselves: Czech folk music band Čechomor, musicians and poets Jaromír Nohavica, Karel Plihal and British musician and composer Jaz Coleman. The soundtrack also includes two pieces by the Killing Joke: Frenzy and Exorcism.

Plot

Dutch documentary film director, Jan Holman, goes to the Czech Republic to make a film about curing alcoholism. At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting he finds a man named Jaromir Nohavica who becomes his friend. Another friend of Nohavica, Karel Plihal, becomes mute, and Nohavica decides to start a tour with the band Čechomor to help cure him. When Jan Holman follows with his camera in tow, he finds many inexplicable events along the way.

Awards and nominations

It was awarded the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and won the Findling Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema in 2002. In 2003 it won 6 Czech Lions, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Editing, and was nominated for 5 more, including Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography. In the same year it won the Prize Trieste at the Trieste Film Festival.

External links

Official pages of the film (Czech)
Official pages of the film (English)
Rok ďábla at the Internet Movie Database

Czech Lion for Best Film

Big Beat (1993)
Thanks for Every New Morning (1994)
The Garden (1995)
Kolya (1996)
Buttoners (1997)
Sekal Has to Die (1998)
Return of the Idiot (1999)
Divided We Fall (2000)
Little Otik (2001)
Year of the Devil (2002)
Boredom in Brno (2003)
Up and Down (2004)
Something Like Happiness (2005)
I Served the King of England (2006)
Little Girl Blue (2007)
The Karamazovs (2008)
Protector (2009)
Walking Too Fast (2010)
Poupata (2011)
In the Shadow (2012)
Burning Bush (2013)
The Way Out (2014)
The Snake Brothers (2015)

Crystal Globe winners

The Last Stage (1948)
The Battle of Stalingrad (1949)
The Fall of Berlin (1950)
Dream of a Cossack (1951)
The Unforgettable Year 1919 (1952)
True Friends – Salt of the Earth (1954)
If All the Guys in the World (1956)
Jagte Raho (1957)
Stepbrothers – And Quiet Flows the Don (1958)
Seryozha (1960)
Nine Days in One Year (1962)
Accused (1964)
No award (1966)
Capricious Summer (1968)
Kes (1970)
Taming of the Fire (1972)
A Lover's Romance (1974)
La Cantata de Chile (1976)
White Bim Black Ear – Shadows of a Hot Summer (1978)
The Fiancee (1980)
Mexico in Flames (1982)
Leo Tolstoy (1984)
A Street to Die (1986)
Hibiscus Town (1988)
No award (1990)
Krapatchouk (1992)
My Soul Brother (1994)
The Ride (1995)
Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
Ma vie en rose (1997)
Streetheart (1998)
Yana's Friends (1999)
Me You Them (2000)
Amélie (2001)
Year of the Devil (2002)
Facing Windows (2003)
A Children's Story (2004)
My Nikifor (2005)
Sherrybaby (2006)
Jar City (2007)
Terribly Happy (2008)
Angel at Sea (2009)
The Mosquito Net (2010)
Restoration (2011)
The Almost Man (2012)
The Notebook (2013)
Corn Island (2014)
Bob and the Trees (2015)

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