Talks with TGM

Talks with TGM (2018)

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On 26 September 1928, Karel Capek and President T.G. Masaryk meet in the gardens of Topolcianky castle to decide about the fate of their joint literary work. Their fiction film dialogue is based on quotes from a future book and their mutual correspondence, considerably freeing the original format of literary conversation from binding conventions. Capek and Masaryk reproach and offend each other, but they also ask key personal questions and questions about the social functions of a writer and politician respectively. "It's a film about two extraordinary men; it's about the fact that emotions can be sometimes more powerful than ideas even in such exceptional people.

Date of release
2018-10-18
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 14m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Jakub Červenka

Casting

Interesting facts

Talks with TGM is a 2018 Czech historical film by Jakub Červenka. It premiered 100 years after foundation of Czechoslovakia. It is based on a book of the same name by Karel Čapek. It focuses on the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and writer Karel Čapek and their dialogue in 1928.

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