All Men Become Brothers is a documentary about Alexander Dubček, a utopian and a political superstar, in the times of the Iron Curtain and in the era of united Europe. The film premiered at the 2023 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
“I joined the Dubček project with my own ideas and a resolve to make a film that surprises its audience despite all expectations. In my view, the most remarkable and paradoxically, also the most controversial part of Dubček’s life began after the onset of normalization: Charter 77, Dubček’s internal exile, and his attempts to rehabilitate himself that lasted until 1989 when he returned to the political scene. This film discovers Alexander Dubček through a variety of situations in cooperation with living witnesses of his era and the help of archives. The characters appear in a mosaic of micro stories that create images of cities, countries, relationships and ties.” (R. Kirchhoff)
Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Robert Kirchhoff
Fotografia / Photography: Juraj Chlpík
Montaggio / Editing: Marek Šulík, Jana Vlčková
Musica / Music: Miroslav Tóth
Suono / Sound: Václav Flegl
Interpreti/Cast: Karel Vachek, Romano Prodi, Eugen Gindl, Lordan Zafranović, Pavel Kohout, Petr Pithart, Fedor Gál, John Bok, Jáchym Topol
Produzione / Produced by: atelier.doc, endorfilm
Coproduzione / Co-produced by: Radio and Television of Slovakia, Czech Television, Plaftilk, Slovak Film Institute
In collaborazione con / In cooperation with: Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Czech Film Fund, Creative Europe Media, Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, Nadácia, Sapa
Robert Kirchhoff
Film director, screenwriter and producer, Robert Kirchhoff was born in 1968 in Nitra, Slovakia. He studied documentary filmmaking at the Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. A teacher at the Academy of Performing arts in Bratislava, he is a member of the European Film Academy. The Trieste FF presented in 2017 his documentary A Hole in the Head.
Selected filmography
2013 Kauza Cervanová (Normalization) doc.; Premi / Awards: Ji.hlava IDFF – Premio speciale della giuria / Special Jury Award; DOK Leipzig – Premio speciale della giuria / Special Jury Award 2015 Para nad riekou doc. (Steam on the River diretto con / directed with Filip Remunda) 2016 Diera v hlave (A Hole in the Head) doc. 2023 Všetci ľudia budú bratia (All Men Become Brothers) doc.
