Shameless (2008 film)

{{Short description|2008 Czech comedy film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Shameless

| image = Nestydafilm.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Film poster

| native_name = {{Infobox name module|cs|Nestyda}}

| director = Jan Hřebejk

| producer = Rudolf Biermann
Tomáš Hoffman

| writer = Michal Viewegh
Jan Hřebejk
Jiří Macháček

| narrator =

| starring = Jiří Macháček
Emília Vášáryová
Simona Babčáková

| music =

| cinematography = Jan Malíř

| editing = Vladimír Barák

| studio = IN Film, Infinity

| distributor = Falcon

| released = {{Film date|2008|10|9}}

| runtime = 88 minutes

| country = Czech Republic

| language = Czech

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Shameless ({{langx|cs|Nestyda}}), is a 2008 Czech comedy film directed by Jan Hřebejk.{{Cite web |last=ObchodyAZ.cz |first=Miloš Kolář-portály |title=Společně VM vás zve na film NESTYDA |url=https://www.novinyvm.cz/21933-spolecne-vm-vas-zve-na-film-nestyda.html |access-date=2023-01-26 |website=NovinyVM |language=cs}} Following their collaborations on A Novel for Women and The Holiday Makers, Czech filmmaker Hřebejk and author Michal Viewegh reunited for Shameless, a comic romp based on Viewegh's bestselling Tales of Marriage and Sex. Overall, the film was a commercial success.{{Cite journal |last=Halas |first=Matus |date=2019-02-12 |title=Love your neighbor: Nazi soldiers and Femmes Fatales in Czech cinema |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1356363 |journal=Social & Cultural Geography |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=242–264 |doi=10.1080/14649365.2017.1356363 |issn=1464-9365}}

Plot

Oskar (Jiří Macháček), a popular TV weather forecaster, suddenly wakes up to an altered sense of identity: rather than belonging to easygoing wife Zuzana (a bewildered Simona Babčáková), he feels he ought to belong to the whole wide world – hence the national embarrassment. His first entanglement is with babysitter Kocicka (Eva Kerekéšová), a lean teenybopper who's more attached to her pet turtle than her older lover – at least until he accidentally smothers it in the dryer. Next in line is mature pop icon Nora (Emília Vášáryová), who's about to teach him a thing or two about freedom: the more people you let in, the more alone you end up feeling.

Cast

  • Jiří Macháček as Oskar
  • Emília Vášáryová as Nora
  • Simona Babčáková as Zuzana
  • Pavel Liška as Matěj
  • Nina Divíšková as Marta, Oskar's mother
  • Pavel Landovský as Bedřich, Oskar's father
  • Eva Kerekéšová as Kočička
  • Martina Krátká as Simona
  • Vojta Husa as Jakub
  • Viktorie Fedorová as Terezka
  • Roman Luknár as Nora's son
  • Andy Hajdu as Nora's son
  • Kryštof Mucha as Robert
  • Marie Látová as Marie
  • Miloš Pokorný as radio speaker
  • Roman Ondráček as radio speaker
  • Peter Kracík as TV7 chief
  • Hana Seidlová as waitress
  • Karla Mráčková as bell-frog
  • Petra Eliáš-Voláková as bell-frog
  • Adam Holý as photographer
  • Renata Vajdáková as Matěj's wife

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  • Lukáš Příkazký as cop
  • Štefan Capko as cop
  • Tomáš Hanák as theatre actor
  • Jiří Fero Burda as theatre actor
  • Jiří Gajdošík as hotel director
  • Ester Janečková as herself
  • Halina Pawlovská as herself
  • Přemek Podlaha as herself
  • Milan Šteindler as herself

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References

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