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    WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN

    Directed by Matěj Chlupáček
    Czech Republic/Slovakia | 117 minutes | U.S. Premiere | New Voices New Visions

  

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In this masterfully mounted drama about privilege, prejudice and gender identity, the discovery of a dead intersex infant amid the rubble of a factory town in 1937 sends shock waves through a society fixated on only one kind of progress.

film details

Director: Matěj Chlupáček
Producers: Maja Hamplová, Matěj Chlupáček
Screenwriter: Miro Šifra
Cinematographers: Martin Douba
Editor: Pavel Hrdlička
Music: Simon Goff
Cast: Eliska Krenková, Miloslav König, Richard Langdon, Martha Issová, Milan Ondrik, Ladislav Hampl, Luboš Veselý, Marián Mitaš, Iveta Dušková, Viktória Petrášová, David Hártl, Anton Šulík, Ján Jackuliak
Original Language Title: Ùsvit
Country: Czech Republic/Slovakia
Language: In Czech and Slovak with English subtitles
Year: 2023
Running Time: 117 minutes
Premiere Status: U.S. Premiere
Primary Company: LevelK
Contact Email: alex@levelk.dk

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