The Idiot Returns
1999 Czech film
- 25 February 1999 (1999-02-25)
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The Idiot Returns (Czech: Návrat idiota; also released as Return of the Idiot) is a 1999 Czech film directed by Saša Gedeon. The movie is loosely based on The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.[1] It was the Czech Republic's submission to the 72nd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2]
Plot
František returns from a mental institution where he spent most of his life. He meets Anna, and later her lovers Emil and Robert, and her sister Olga.
Cast
- Pavel Liška as František
- Anna Geislerová as Anna
- Tatiana Vilhelmová as Olga
- Jiří Langmajer as Emil
- Jiří Macháček as Robert
- Zdena Hadrbolcová as Emil's and Robert's mother
- Jitka Smutná as Anna and Olga's mother
- Pavel Marek as Krtek
- Anna Polívková as Girl at dancing lessons
Awards
- 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Film
- 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Screenplay - Saša Gedeon
- 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Director - Saša Gedeon
- 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Supporting Actress - Anna Geislerová
- 1999 Czech Lion Award for Best Music - Vladimír Godár
- 2000 Best Actress at Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema - Anna Geislerová and Tatiana Vilhelmová
- 2000 Best Screenplay at Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema - Saša Gedeon
- 1999 International Jury Award at São Paulo International Film Festival - Saša Gedeon
See also
- List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Czech submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
- The Idiot Returns at IMDb
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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)
- The Idiot Returns (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 Karamazov Brothers (2008)
- Protector (2009)
- Walking Too Fast (2010)
- Poupata (2011)
- In the Shadow (2012)
- Burning Bush (2013)
- The Way Out (2014)
- The Snake Brothers (2015)
- A Prominent Patient (2016)
- Ice Mother (2017)
- Winter Flies (2018)
- The Painted Bird (2019)
- Charlatan (2020)
- Zátopek (2021)
- Il Boemo (2022)
- Brothers (2023)
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