Ondřej Trojan is preparing a “dark gangster romantic musical comedy” set in a working-class environment. Czech director Ondřej Trojan is currently shooting Bourák, his next feature after the period biopic Toman. Billed as a “dark gangster romantic musical comedy”, the script was written by Petr Jarchovský, who penned the screenplays for Trojan’s previous endeavours Identity Card, Let’s All Sing Around and Želary, which received a 2004 Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign-language Film category. “It’s the story of a ‘displaced’ philanderer and irresponsible father, a romantically inclined car mechanic who, as punishment for his behaviour, is forced by his wife and daughter to sleep in his own car in a garage. In order to survive his unhappy life in these unpleasant surroundings, he lives immersed in a different reality, in the United States during the period 1956-1959, Elvis Presley’s heyday. He refuses to come down from his cloud and.
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