Czech film and actress win Moscow fest awards

MUMBAI: Czech director Irena Pavlaskova‘s film Earthy Paradise for the Eyes won the FIPRESCI award at the Moscow International Film Festival while Czech actress Vilma Cibulkova who essays a role in the film won the festival‘s best actress award.

“If someone told me 15 years ago that I will play in a film about the Soviet occupation of my own country and that I will be awarded for it at the Moscow film festival, I would not believe it,” Cibulkova said while receiving the award.

The script for the film was written by Tereza Bouckova. Its main heroes are dissidents and Charter 77 human rights manifesto signatories. It was made in co-production with the Czech Television public broadcaster.

Bouckova is a daughter of Czech writer Pavel Kohout.