Insects (film)

Insects
Insects
	Poster
Directed by	Jan Švankmajer
Written by	Jan Švankmajer
Based on	Pictures from the Insects' Life by Karel Čapek and Josef Čapek
Starring	Jiří Lábus, Jan Budař, Kamila Magálová
Production; companies	Athanor; Czech Television; PubRes
Distributed by	CinemArt; PubRes
Release dates	26 January 2018 (IFF Rotterdam); 19 February 2018 (Czech Republic);
Running time	98 minutes
Countries	Czech Republic; Slovakia
Language	Czech
Budget	40 million CZK

Insects (Czech: Hmyz) is a surreal comedy film directed by Jan Švankmajer, the film is based on the play Pictures from the Insects' Life by Karel and Josef Čapek.^[2] Švankmajer stated that the film would be his last.^[3] It premiered on 26 January 2018 at International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film follows amateur actors rehearsing Pictures from the Insects' Life. The actors find themselves living out their characters' roles and hallucinating insects. Insects is intercut with the creative process of the film itself and interviews with the actors about their dreams.

^ kinobox.cz, team at. "Když brouk zabije kvůli nevěře berušku. Švankmajerův poslední film slibuje hodně netradiční podívanou". www.kinobox.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 29 January 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Insects (2017)". FilmAffinity. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
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