Four Suns
Four Suns was the first Czech film in competition at Sundance, which is less surprising when we look at the film’s structure, a bitter and humorous plot about the disintegration of a family in the countryside that fits well into the independent flick ideals promoted at Park City. Bohdan Sláma began making the film shortly after his son’s death with the main protagonist as the director’s alter ego: despite immaturity and parental failings, he continues to be a loving father. Along with the local New Age shaman, they set up their own business. Like in Zorba the Greek, this portends of a beautiful catastrophe.
awards
Czech Lions 2013 – Best Supporting Acress
Bohdan Sláma
Director Bohdan Sláma was born in the town on Opava, in the Czech half of Czechoslovakia in 1967. He is a graduate of Prague’s esteemed FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts). In 1992, he began working as an assistant to Věra Chytilova on The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday. He made his own feature debut in 2001 with The Wild Bees. In 2005, he received the San Sebastián festival’s Golden Shell for Something Like Happiness.
Selected filmography
2001 Dzikie pszczoły / Divoké vcely / The Wild Bees
2005 Szczęście / Stestí / Something Like Happiness
2008 Mój nauczyciel / Venkovský ucitel / Country Teacher
2011 Cztery słońca / Čtyři slunce / Four Suns