Úcastníci zájezdu (2006)

Director:

Jirí Vejdelek

Writers:

Michal Viewegh (novel)
Michal Viewegh (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

20 April 2006 (Czech Republic)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Trip | Ocean | Family

Cast

Anna Polívková	...	Jolana
Eva Holubová	...	Jolana's mother
Bohumil Klepl	...	Jolana's father (as Bob Klepl)
Ondrej Koval	...	Max
Jaromír Nosek	...	Ignác
Adrian Jastraban	...	Oskar
Jitka Kocurová	...	Pamela
Kveta Fialová	...	Sarlota
Jana Stepánková	...	Helga
Sárka Oprsálova	...	Irma
Kristýna Leichtová	...	Denisa
Martin Pechlát	...	Vladimír
Martin Sitta	...	Jarda
Eva Leinweberová	...	Jitus
Miroslav Krobot	...	Older Karel

Also Known As:

Holiday Makers (USA) (festival title)

Runtime:

Czech Republic:113 min

Country:

Czech Republic

Language:

Czech

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

Certification:

Czech Republic:U

Company:

In Film Praha

Trivia:

Inside joke: In one scene Jana Stepánková (Helga) asks Ondrej Koval (Max) whether he can dance at all, after he asked her to dance with him. He, in fact, is an accomplished dancer. But the joke was unintentional.

Soundtrack:

Nevinná

Mildly funny good-natured light comedy

It begins with a motley of vacationers on a bus headed for a week long vacation at a seaside resort. It is a wide assortment of characters: a single, moderately famous singer; a nerdy, onanistic man; a couple of old ladies reaching senility; a couple of young gals looking for an amorous adventure; a family with a boy unsure about where he fits sexually; a beautiful woman that, besides working as a trip guide, has pretensions of being a music composer; a couple of gay men; and another family where the parents are stuck in a sexual ice age while their twentyish daughter is looking to connect with a man. Since they share the same resort hotel, their lives are constantly intersecting. Some of the humor arises from those intersections, but the comedy relies even more on sexual issues: encounters that fail, shifting partners, erotic confusions, a hilarious bit about condoms, etc. This is not a laugh aloud comedy, but the humor is clever at times. It is an enjoyable light comedy.