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Best documentary IFF 2007
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LOST HOLIDAY
84 Minutes, 35mm
Year of production: 2007
Directed by: Lucie Králová
Produced by: DOCUfilm PRAHA
Versions: English
Czech tourist Lada found a suitcase containing 22 rolls of undeveloped film in a Swedish dumpster. When developed, the negatives produced 756 fascinating snapshots of six unknown Chinese tourists. The film crew search for those people according their lost photos in a world where every fourth person is Chinese. After three years, at the end of the journey tracing the unknown Asians footsteps, the story becomes a part of the Chinese TV industry viewed by more than 300 000 000 Chinese. This documentary detective story is about travel, photos, and identity in an interconnected world, about memory and the importance of treasuring images, about Czechs, Europeans, and Chinese.
“Working from mysterious found photographs, an intrepid group of Czech filmmakers attempt to track down six unidentified Asian men in the gripping detective documentary Lost Holiday. Serious issues of global communication, leavened with wry Czech humor, ensure pic will find brisk play at fests prior to strong tube life.”
(VARIETY: Eddie Cockrell 07/ 2007)
A thrilling and entertaining documentary detective story, that was shown on various international film festivals and won Best Documentary at IFF 2007.
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Björn Jensen
email: jensen(at)gingerfoot.de
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