THE PAST
Czech Republic

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     A well-dressed youth leaps onto a moving train and is on the run. It is not known why and much less after what or from whom he is running. It may be in pursuit of memories of an autumn night when, hidden among the shrubbery, he saw the police arrive, a body taken away on a stretcher, a girl in a state of shock. Or he may be after the memories of when he left prison and faced the reality of a modern world. He is running away from his past, remote and recent.

     Frantisek is deaf. He has spent many years in prison and, when he is released, he has in his hands only the photograph of his former girl friend, Liza, to remind him of happier days. He starts on a long journey to find the woman he loves, but is alone with no help. In his search, he discovers he is being followed and finds himself in a dangerous game. All he wants is to find Liza in this world he can not comprehend.

     Inspired in the tradition of the cinèma-verité, the story is filmed in a documental style, with nonprofessional actors and much room for improvisation, as a form of allowing real life to enter the narrative. A film trying to make sense out of a world today, on the incapacity of communication, loneliness, and also, abuse and manipulation.

   
 
Director : Ivo Trajkov
Screemplay : Ivo Trajkov
Cinematographer : Klaus Fuxjäger
Edition : Bára Kastakova
Cast : Madla Zimová, Karel Zima, Klára Melísková, Peter Georgiev, Jaroslav Macchácek
Producer Vladmír Chrenovsky, Ivo Trajkov
Production : The World Circle Foundation Jana Zelivského 39, 130 03 Praha 3,
Tel.: 02 697 20 75
Fax: 02 644 00 74
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  Col. /P&B., 96min., 1998
 

Produtor, roteirista e diretor, Ivo Trajkov nasceu em 1965, na Macedônia. Formou-se pela FAMU, de Praga, em 1992. Realizou diversos médias e curtas antes de estrear na direção de longas, com The Cannary Connection, em 1993. Três anos depois fez o documentário Such a Normal Marriage, sobre casamento entre homossexuais. O Passado é seu terceiro longa.