The Diary of Grandmother Němcová

Short documentary, 35 min
Distribution premiere (as a part of the 4 things film): 19th January 2006

Everyday brings different weather – around us and in us.

Credits
Original Theme, Screenwriter, Director: Jan Gogola ml.
Director of Photography: Jiří Lívanec
Sound Engineer: Jiří Melcher
Editor: Zdeněk Marek
Executive Producer: David Hanzal
Production Managers: Helena Machová, Dagmar Stehlíková
Photographers: Martina Gogolová, David Hanzal
Designers: Lucie Němcová, Vladimíra Fomínová
Assistant Camera: David Marvan, Thomas Křivý, Tomáš Kresta, Jiří Málek, Tomáš Nováček, Jaromír Pávíček, Tony Gřešek, Petr Koblovský, Tomáš Choura
Production Assistant: Vratislav Šlajer, Jan Kallista
Pedagogical Supervision: Jaromír Kallista, Karel Vachek, Ivo Blaha, Petr Prokop, Drahomíra Vihanová
© 1999 Czech TV and FAMU

About the film
„Today it was warm again, although it has been cloudy since the morning so the weather has been fine. In the morning from 10 to 12 degrees Celsius, during the day it was around 20. Around midday it started to clear up, but it did not last long, in the afternoon it was again cloudy and misty. Pepa, Alen and the children went to the woods to the summer-house. The children waved from the summer-house and they shouted at grandpa; he was at the river fishing. I waved at them from the window. It was sad, they seemed happy there and they brought some mushrooms as well. In the afternoon I changed the sheets and cleaned our room. Yesterday I did not have time, so I was working almost during the whole of Sunday.“
This is a first transcript from a film shot according to the diary of grandmother Němcová from Zbraslav, Prague, who, for 25 years, had kept a diary about weather, its condition and personal, family, local and social events. Grandmother Němcová died several weeks before the shooting of the movie where people are reading those passages, in which they appear. This is how a film diary was created which testifies that everyone's life can have a wonderful "climate".

Pictures from the film

Jan Gogola ml.

   High resolution (300 DPI)
   Low resolution (100 DPI)



Jan Gogola (born 1971) – husband of Martina, father of Eliška and Šimon
Director, Supervisor of programme of Czech TV Brno,
professor at FAMU, journalist
Studied journalism at Charles University and documentary production at FAMU.
Jan Gogola na IMDB

Filmography
:: České Velenice evropské (one part of the Austrian documentary
   Across the Border / Přes hranici)
:: The Diary of Grandmother Němcová (film diary about weather in and around us)
:: Národ sobě aneb České moře v osmnácti přílivech (feature street movie
    with a nation to be used)
:: Nonstop (philosophical grotesque about an endlessly flowing highway)
:: Panelák je kamarád – Praha mizerná
:: Slečna Braník – Praha mizerná
:: Ave Braník (portrayal of parts of Prague)
:: Panenka proti zbytku světa (a feature portrayal film)
:: Vila Inocent (portrayal of a woman with an absolute will)
:: six parts of the TV series Intolerance: Matiční souvislosti (Matiční Street and society),
   Komunikační souvislosti (intellectuals and society), Opoziční souvislosti
   (opposition contract and society), Intolerance tolerance? (political principles
   and unconcern), Výzkumné souvislosti (numbers and social connections)
   a Bezcenné souvislosti (art winners rostra and a art context)
:: Director and screenwriter of seven TV series Archivní eseje, which also contained
   documentaries by experts and laymen who, also,
   commented a certain social theme.

Story editor of these (and other) films
:: A.B.C.D.T.O.P.O.L. (director Filip Remunda)
:: Bitva o život (directors Vít Janeček, Mirek Janek, Roman Vávra)
:: Český sen (directors Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda)
:: Den E (directors Erika Hníková, Vít Janeček, Ivana Miloševič)
:: Fester nebo fikce (Robert Ellmann)
:: Hledači pevného bodu (director Pavel Koutecký)
:: Hry prachu (director Martin Mareček)
:: Kamenolom Boží (one year in the north of the Czech Republic, director Břetislav Rychlík)
:: Maturita v listopadu (director Jiří Krejčík)
:: Pátrání po Ester (director Věra Chytilová)
:: Profil – Jan Kaplický (director Jakub Wagner)
:: 66 sezón (director Peter Kerekes)
:: „Tenkrát“, „Tenkrát 2 – Šance pro Slovensko“, „Tenkrát 3 – Husákovo ticho“
   (authors Robert Sedláček a Radim Procházka)
:: Vzlety a pády I. a II. (director Věra Chytilová)
:: Zpráva o králi Šumavy (director Kristina Vlachová)