Film detail | The Southern Mail

Južná pošta

On a Common Journey

Country: Slovak Republic
Language: Slovak
Subtitles: (No Subtitles)
Directed by: Stanislav Párnický
Year: 1987
Length: 95`
Rating: 12
Story: Ladislav Ballek
Screenplay: Jozef Heriban, Jozef Slovák
Director of Photography: Ladislav Kraus
Music: Ivan Kašlík
Edited by: Eduard Klenovský
Production: Slovenská filmová tvorba, Štúdio hraných filmov Bratislava - Koliba 1. tvorivo - výrobná skupina, vedúci Peter Jaroš

Synopsis: A 40-year-old writer is recalling his difficult childhood that he experienced as a five-year-old boy in southern Slovakia during the postwar period. The memories are full of peculiar characters typical of that place and time characterised by political, national and social conflicts.

Stanislav Párnický: Stanislav Párnický (1945) is a Slovak TV and film director. He graduated in theater directing from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He first worked in theater, later moving into television, where he made a substantial amount of his rich productions. He made his independent foray into feature films with, e.g., the drama films A Cart Full of Pain (Kára plná bolesti, 1985) and Southern Post (Južná pošta, 1987), the fairytale Sleeping Beauty (Šípková Růženka, 1990) and the sequel to a film by Štefan Uher, She Grazed Horses on Concrete (Pásla kone na betóne, 1982) under the title ...Horses on Concrete (…kone na betóne, 1995).

Where and when The Southern Mail is screened

Where	When	Reservation
Golden Apple Cinema, č. 4	May 29th at 13:00	N/A

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