After receiving critical praise at both the 2004 Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, Sony Pictures Classics picked up distribution rights to Academy Award-nominated director Jan Hrebejk's Up and Down. The film marks the fifth collaboration over the last decade between Hrebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky.
Up and Down is a colorful, eloquent story about love and cultural identity. It takes place in a complicated New World that has fluid borders and deep-seated suspicions.
Somewhere close to the Czech-Slovak border, Milan and Goran unhappily discover that their truckload of illegal Indian immigrants have left behind a baby. In another parallel story, the childless couple Frantisek and Miluska become more and more attached to one another. Frantisek is a decent guy whose probation due to soccer hooliganism prevents him from adopting, while Miluska is fragile emotionally and physically incapable of conceiving a child on her own.
One day, while Frantisek is away at work, Miluska cashes in their savings and buys that abandoned Indian child from a pawn shop - a place that serves as a front for a den of thieves. And these stories only scratch the very surface of the complex plots that weave through the film. (Kim Hollis/BOP)
Vital statistics for Up and Down |
| Main Cast |
Petr Forman, Emilia Vasaryova, Jan Triska |
| Supporting Cast |
Ingrid Timkova, Kristyna Bokova, Jiri Machacek, Natasa Burger, Jaroslav Dusek, Pavel Liska, Marek Daniel, Jan Budar, Zdenek Suchy |
| Director |
Jan Hrebejk |
| Screenwriter |
Jan Hrebejk, Petr Jarchovsky |
| Distributor |
Sony Pictures Classics |
| Rating |
R |
| Running Time |
108 minutes |
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