Excellent film

I was in Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2008 and tried to buy tickets for
this film which was one of the big films there - but every show was sold out.

Lucky me, I also got the chance to see the film today at the Göteborg Film Festival.
And I was rewarded with a great film experience.

The depth of moral discussion in the Dostoievsky novel combined with
some of the best czech and polish actors and a perfect setting in an
old steel mill where the flames of hell burst into the air as the drama
of the Karamazov brothers unfolds in the midst of a small audience of
tired working men, the steel workers at the mill.

The reason the actors are there is that there's a EU financed project
of showing theatre plays in real places, like at this steel mill of Nova Huta.
I wish that this would be an actual thing to happen because it would be
an interesting project to follow.

The actors find themselves suddenly in a real drama when they get to know
that a boy has been playing in the mill and have been hurt badly from a fall.
The father of the boy is one of the workers watching the play as if he is
going to get answers from The Karamazovs to help him cope with his grief.
When he answers his telephone, and then covers his face, the actors know
that the boy is dead. What will the father do now? And why?

This film leaves of course the spectator with lots of questions afterwards.
Good films and good novels usually raise questions and then lets people
themselves find the answers from their own experiences and their own ethics.

Being a fan of Russian 19th century novels and czech and polish films
made this film special to watch.

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