Year of the Devil

2002 Czech mockumentary film

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Year of the Devil

Directed by| Petr Zelenka
Written by| Petr Zelenka
Produced by| Pavel Strnad
Starring| Jaromír Nohavica,
Karel Plíhal,
František Černý,
Karel Holas & Čechomor,
Jaz Coleman,
Jan Prent
Edited by| David Charap
Music by| Jaromír Nohavica,
Čechomor,
Karel Holas

Production
company

Negativ

Release date

* March 7, 2002 (2002-03-07)

Running time

| 88 minutes
Country| Czech Republic
Languages| Czech
English
Dutch

Year of the Devil (Czech: Rok ďábla) is a 2002 Czech mockumentary film directed by Petr Zelenka. It stars musicians who act as themselves: Czech folk music band Čechomor, musicians and poets Jaromír Nohavica, Karel Plihal and British musician and composer Jaz Coleman. The soundtrack also includes two pieces by the Killing Joke: Frenzy and Exorcism.

## Plot

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Dutch documentary film director, Jan Holman, goes to the Czech Republic to make a film about curing alcoholism. At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting he finds a man named Jaromir Nohavica who becomes his friend. Another friend of Nohavica, Karel Plihal, becomes mute, and Nohavica decides to start a tour with the band Čechomor to help cure him. When Jan Holman follows with his camera in tow, he finds many inexplicable events along the way.

## Awards and nominations

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It was awarded the Crystal Globe at the 37th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and won the Findling Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema in 2002. In 2003 it won 6 Czech Lions, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Editing, and was nominated for 5 more, including Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography. In the same year it won the Prize Trieste at the Trieste Film Festival.

## External links

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* Official pages of the film (in Czech)
* Official pages of the film (in English)
* Rok ďábla at IMDb

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Petr Zelenka

Films directed|

* Buttoners (1997)
* Year of the Devil (2002)
* Wrong Side Up (2005)
* The Karamazov Brothers (2008)
* Lost in Munich (2015)
* Droneman (2020)

Plays|

* Tales of Common Insanity (2001)

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Czech Lion for Best Film

* Big Beat (1993)
* Thanks for Every New Morning (1994)
* The Garden (1995)
* Kolya (1996)
* Buttoners (1997)
* Sekal Has to Die (1998)
* The Idiot Returns (1999)
* Divided We Fall (2000)
* Little Otik (2001)
* Year of the Devil (2002)
* Boredom in Brno (2003)
* Up and Down (2004)
* Something Like Happiness (2005)
* I Served the King of England (2006)
* Little Girl Blue (2007)
* The Karamazov Brothers (2008)
* Protector (2009)
* Walking Too Fast (2010)
* Poupata (2011)
* In the Shadow (2012)
* Burning Bush (2013)
* The Way Out (2014)
* The Snake Brothers (2015)
* A Prominent Patient (2016)
* Ice Mother (2017)
* Winter Flies (2018)
* The Painted Bird (2019)
* Charlatan (2020)
* Zátopek (2021)
* Il Boemo (2022)
* Brothers (2023)

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Crystal Globe winners

* The Last Stage (1948)
* The Battle of Stalingrad (1949)
* The Fall of Berlin (1950)
* Dream of a Cossack (1951)
* The Unforgettable Year 1919 (1952)
* True Friends - Salt of the Earth (1954)
* If All the Guys in the World (1956)
* Jagte Raho (1957)
* Stepbrothers - And Quiet Flows the Don (1958)
* Splendid Days (1960)
* Nine Days in One Year (1962)
* Accused (1964)
* No award (1966)
* Capricious Summer (1968)
* Kes (1970)
* Taming of the Fire (1972)
* A Lover's Romance (1974)
* Cantata de Chile (1976)
* White Bim Black Ear - Shadows of a Hot Summer (1978)
* The Fiancee (1980)
* Red Bells (1982)
* Leo Tolstoy (1984)
* A Street to Die (1986)
* Hibiscus Town (1988)
* No award (1990)
* Krapatchouk (1992)
* My Soul Brother (1994)
* The Ride (1995)
* Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
* Ma vie en rose (1997)
* Streetheart (1998)
* Yana's Friends (1999)
* Me You Them (2000)
* Amélie (2001)
* Year of the Devil (2002)
* Facing Windows (2003)
* A Children's Story (2004)
* My Nikifor (2005)
* Sherrybaby (2006)
* Jar City (2007)
* Terribly Happy (2008)
* Angel at Sea (2009)
* The Mosquito Net (2010)
* Restoration (2011)
* The Almost Man (2012)
* The Notebook (2013)
* Corn Island (2014)
* Bob and the Trees (2015)
* It's Not the Time of My Life (2016)
* Little Crusader (2017)
* I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018)
* The Father (2019)
* As Far as I Can Walk (2021)
* Summer with Hope (2022)
* Blaga's Lessons (2023)
* A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things (2024)

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