Following the longing of fans of one of the best TV series of recent times on TV Nova, the director decided to make a feature film. He came up with a good idea in that the most important element that will be in the film will be the character who is the most important, but only appears in references throughout the series, where immediately in the first episode the coach's ashes are scattered on the lawn of the football stadium.
Yes, it's the coach who died. The famous one-that's Pepa Hnatek, after whom the team captain should take over. And now the dilemma? Who should play that coach? Well, even when one thinks about it, it's hard to think of anyone other than the director himself, Miroslav Krobot, who has given himself to character acting since The Trip Participant, elevating each film to a drama of superb acting that other actors have a hard time matching. As far as I can remember, every Miroslav Krobot film is about his acting trumping the other actors. In my opinion, it's probably because he just knows how to lead actors and he's so perfect at acting himself.
But now to the film. As I've read other reviewers' reviews, this should be the best comedy in years. Me, I share their opinion because it's a movie about the story of an aging coach who's entire team is against him and the coach is really trying to do everything he can to get his team to a higher competition even though his advice is direct and simple, his players don't listen to him at all and he has a constant problem with them. It's all about his great pride in football, where he tries to do everything for his team despite the opposition of his wife and doctors.
When I look at the whole film, it's linked by many short stories of village football, fairgrounds and pubs, where everything from neighbours across the road to the historical context of who's with who where is dealt with. Well, classic village feuds. The whole story is linked by the story of the head coach, who has kept his illness a secret from his first heart attack to his death, and so God knows what is said about him. Miroslav Krobot is the top of the pyramid throughout the film, where the other actors just pass him verbal pearls, to which Krobot, as the main character, duly responds with pride in his coach mentor voice.
The humorous moments are punctuated by a mainly sporting, mainly football theme, where the players, let alone the coaches, are proud of their club, their captain's C. He hates other clubs, let alone Slavia Prague.
When I compare the other elements of the film, if not the actors, the cinematography is of standard Czech standard, the sound is of the usual standard, perhaps the music can be highlighted, where they managed to bring in a lot of musical elements from the series and songs that accurately capture the village peace. ¨
Summing up, on balance, as a Czech film, Vesnicky přebor is a good Czech film that builds on the success of the series and manages to bring people back to village football and also bring Czech film back above the threshold of J , where Czech film has been lately, very far below the muck.
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Original article March 30, 2012 – Kritiky.cz
