Hotel Alkohol In postproduction Q4 2025
- Fiction Film
- 90'
- s.d.
- Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Croatia
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A drunk, a madman and a junkie fail to win the ‘Olympics’ in the psychiatric hospital. After a dispute with the Senior Doctor, they run away in frustration. Running out of medication, they occupy a pharmacy where they each experience their own enlightenment.
Bako decides to seek treatment for alcoholism in a psychiatric hospital. There he meets Medea, a drug addict, and Drago, a naive and good-natured chess-loving psychiatric patient. The dominant, harsh Senior doctor organizes an "Olympics," and the three form a team called Hotel Alcohol. After a failure in the competition, they decide to run away to the seaside. Medea and Drago’s condition worsens without medication, and the pharmacist Marjana refuses to give them pills without a prescription. They tie her up and serve themselves. In the tense siege, they bond, freeing themselves from their burdens.
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From early on, my life has been quite closely intertwined with people with disabilities, alcoholics, psychiatric patients, drug addicts and “addicts” of all kinds. In this film I want to bring the aud
From early on, my life has been quite closely intertwined with people with disabilities, alcoholics, psychiatric patients, drug addicts and “addicts” of all kinds. In this film I want to bring the audience closer to that world and demystify it in a serious way, that will, however, be interlaced considerably with comic elements. A demystifying of any taboo can only take place through the prism of intelligent humour. Condemning others is running away from the essence and running away from oneself at the same time, approaching those who are “different”, and the different can be an act of getting closer to the essence of things in this world.
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hrvaško: Scenarij "Hotel Alkohol" Jana Cvitkoviča donosi duboko emotivnu i slojevitu priču o životnim izazovima. Cvitkovič, poznati slovenski redatelj i scenarist, vješto razvija likove Bake, Medeje i Draga, čineći ih punokrvnim i životnim, s kojima se lako identificirati. Dramaturška dosljednost i uvjerljivi dijalozi dodatno naglašavaju emocionalni dojam priče. Tema alkoholizma, narkomanije i psihičkih bolesti je suvremena i relevantna, a scenarij suptilno integrira ove elemente, donoseći inovativnost i autentičnost. Redateljska vizija Jana Cvitkoviča jasno vodi likove kroz emotivna iskustva i izazove, stvarajući uvjerljivu i autentičnu atmosferu. Njegov inovativni pristup istražuje kompleksnost ljudskog iskustva, duboko involvirajući gledatelja kroz pažljivo postavljene scene. Plan promocije i distribucije je vrlo kvalitetan. Novi Cvitkovičev film ima izuzetan festivalski potencijal.
Comitee: Janez Lapajne, Čedomir Kolar, Miran Zupanič Explication
Največja odlika scenarija je prežetost s človečnostjo. Občutljivi odnosi, upi in sanje na rob odrinjenih posebnežev so podani z občutkom za (so)človeka. Hotenja in hrepenenja osrednjih treh filmskih oseb so univerzalna. Relevantni problematiki duševnih stisk in odvisnosti sta predstavljeni z izvirno in blagodejno duhovitostjo. Spretno nizanje prizorov, z njihovimi notranjimi dramaturgijami vred, priča o tem, da je scenarist prekaljen opazovalec življenja, ki zna pisati za film. Scenarij ne zdrsne v sentimentalnost, na koncu pa ničesar ne zapira; junake pusti v trenutku, ko jim je še naprej dovoljeno sanjati, kar lahko gledalcu po ogledu filma pomembno »podaljša« njegovo sobivanje s filmskimi junaki. Lucidna celota predstavlja obet za zelo privlačen film, tako za slovenske obiskovalce kinematografov kot za pomembnejše mednarodne festivale. Ob ustrezni realizaciji bi film lahko bil deležen tudi mednarodne distribucije.
SL: Znesek se deli med več odobrenih projektov prijavitelja.
EN: Amount distributed among miltiple projects by the applicant.
Comitee: Klemen Dvornik, Vilma Štritof Čretnik, Nejc Gazvoda, Žanina Mirčevska (alternate) Explication
Scenarij za Hotel Alkohol je od zadnjega branja komisije naredil velik korak naprej - iz včasih brezsmiselne in privatizmov polne komedije je postal trpka, a še vedno humorna drama, ki je umeščena v realen prostor, se ukvarja z realnimi problemi, projekt je dobil potreben fokus. Zdaj so dogodivščine treh (anti)junakov, ki se borijo vsak s svojimi demoni, hkrati socialna drama in komedija zmešnjav, a scenarist in režiser Jan Cvitkovič je pri vseh elementih ujel pravo mero. Liki nosijo vsak svoje križe in težave, so zelo dobro zamišljeni in vsak od njih ne trpi le od odvisnosti od substanc, ampak se bori z osamljenostjo, z željo biti ljubljen, opažen, pomemben, srečen. Glede na avtorjev renome in izrazito jasno žanrsko pozicioniran film (institucija proti posamezniku) komisija ne dvomi v mednarodno prepoznavnost filma, ravno tako so notranji konflikti likov tako arhetipski, da je univerzalna privlačnost zgodbe skoraj zagotovljena. Komisija želi, da projekt vztraja na tej poti, ki si jo je zastavil in da ne zaide v pretirano situacijsko komiko, s katero seveda ni nič narobe, a bi v tem primeru film zelo hitro pretirano zbanalizirala.
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