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“Working from mysterious found photographs, an intrepid group of Czech filmmakers attempt to track down six unidentified Asian men in the gripping detective documentary Lost Holiday. Serious issues of global communication, leavened with wry Czech humor, ensure pic will find brisk play at fests prior to strong tube life.”

(Variety: Eddie Cockrell 07/ 2007)

Lost Holiday

Documentary detective story.

Czech tourist Lada found a suitcase containing 22 rolls of undeveloped film in a Swedish dumpster. When developed, the negatives produced 756 fascinating snapshots of six unknown Chinese tourists. The film crew search for those people according their lost photos in a world where every fourth person is Chinese. At the end of the journey tracing the unknown Asians footsteps, the story becomes a part of the Chinese TV industry viewed by more than 300 000 000 Chinese. This documentary detective story is about travel, photos, and identity in an interconnected world, about memory and the importance of treasuring images, about Czech, Europeans, and Chinese.

English title: Lost Holiday

Original Title: Ztracená dovolená

Awards: Crystal globe for Best Documentary over 30 minutes at IFF Karlovy Vary 2007

• Copyright © 2007
• Length: 84 minutes
• Format: 35mm, DOLBY DIGITAL, 1: 1,85
• Language: Czech with English subtitles (Chinese subtitles will be available)
• Website: www.lostholiday.com
• Date of distribution premiere: 7/2007
• Place of distribution premiere: Official selection for IFF Karlovy Vary documentary competition
• Theatrical release in Czech cinemas from 9/ 2007

Director: Lucie Králová

Prodrucer: Martin Řezníček - DOCUfilm PRAHA

Co-producers: Czech Television, FAMU

Executive producer: Zuzana Richterová

Project manager: Lenka Stárková

Czech distributor: ACFK

Worldsales:
DOCUfilm PRAHA
tel. +420-774-300707
reznam@seznam.cz
lucie.kralova@seznam.cz

Credits

Director: Lucie Králová

Screenwriter: Lucie Králová

Director of Photography: Tomáš Stanek, Braňo Pažitka

Editor: Jakub Hejna

Sound: Richard Müller

Producer: Martin Řezníček - DOCUfilm PRAHA

Executive Producer: Zuzana Richterová

Premiere Date: 4/6/2007 IFF KARLOVY VARY / CZ 2007 / 84MIN / 35MM