Can we be who we want to be?
To shine in the spotlight, or muddle along? To set your own course, or talk someone else’s talk? To live your dream, or face daily reality? And where does reality start and where does it end?
Five characters of this intimate story try to form the world around them and find their own unmistakable spots in it. An author is trying to write a perfect play, a bargirl wants to become a singer and an artist longs for recognition and fame.
One Must Live is an expression of resistance but also hope that we are able to control our destiny. Where can the struggle to live our own story get us?
One Must Live is inspired by leitmotifs from the works of Karel Čapek and Daniel Kehlmann. It is set against the stage design of a small town by the immersive theatre company Pomezí. This fictional environment is greatly enhanced by visual effects that open the illusion of a world on the borderland (“pomezí”) where a border between tangible space and fiction crumbles. The project thus stands on the border between theatre and film.
DCP, DCI-Flat, Sound 5.1
70 minutes
Language: Czech
subtitles: ENG, FR, ESP
We are planning festival and television distribution during 2025
In the film There's a life to be lived, the camera, and therefore the viewer, becomes a participant in the theatrical production, we will walk directly between the actors and participants during the interactive performance in non-traditional spaces. This method will place greater demands on implementation, but will bring a much more intense experience. The film must be a distinctive audiovisual spectacle in accordance with the style of the Pomezí project.
The film is an independent production. It will be distributed at festivals in 2025 and most likely also televised.
The aim of the campaign on Hithita is to collect basic financial support for the filming, which will take place in the second half of May 2024.
We will draw money for post-production from other sources. We will cut and sound the film in the winter of 2024.
Festival and TV distribution will begin during 2025.
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Petr Smělík is the author and producer of the film adaptation of the project.
For over 17 years, he has worked mainly for Czech Television as a documentarian, editor and director.
His projects have won several awards at film festivals.
There are also other film and television professionals in the crew.
Tomáš Nováček is behind the camera, Ivan Horák is the sound master.
Production and assistant director Jelena Kudelová.
The authors of the theatrical adaptation are Lukáš Brychta and Vojtěch Bartoš from the Pomezí Theater.
Preparations for filming take place in close cooperation with them.
More information about the theater production, including the possibility of purchase tickets here.