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Alois Nebel film screened

The Czech Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, in cooperation with the Altan Khalis Film Festival, screened the Czech animated film Alois Nebel, which was recognized as the best European animated film in 2012, in the cultural hall of Citi University of Ulaanbaatar in the scope of the annual Czech Film Evenings.

Alois Nebel is the debut of director Tomáš Luňák. The animated drama is an adaptation of the comic book novel of the same name, which has three parts. The authors of the black-and-white model are writer and screenwriter Jaroslav Rudiš and singer, lyricist and artist Jaromír 99. For the first time in Czech cinematography, a unique rotoscoping technology was used to make the film, which is a combination of feature and animated film.

The creators chose rotoscoping because it maintains the fluidity and realism of the movement of characters and objects. The results of the image are as close as possible to the facial expressions and gestures of the actors. This technology consists of shootings of the scenes with the actors in a reality, and these are then redrawn and animated scene after scene. It was first used in 1915 by American filmmaker Max Fleischer.

At the Czech Lion 2011, the film won the award for best music, best sound, best artistic solution and best poster.

In December 2012, he won the Best Animated Film category at the European Film Awards.

The story of the film begins in the autumn of 1989 at the Bílý Potok railway station in the Jeseníky Mountains, where Alois Nebel (Miroslav Krobot) serves as a dispatcher. Nebel is a silent loner who is occasionally struck by a strange hallucinations. Dorothe (Tereza Voříšková), the victim of the forced expulsion of the Germans after World War II, appears to him most often in them. The gray days at the station in Bílý Potoc at the end of socialism flow lazily, and the switchman Wachek (Leoš Noha) and his father (Alois Švehlík) do some trades with officers of the Soviet army. One day, the peaceful atmosphere is disturbed by Němý (Karel Roden), who crosses the border with an axe in his hand to avenge his mother. Hallucinations eventually lead Nebel to a madhouse and lose his job as a dispatcher. He goes to Prague to look for another job in the railway and finds his lifelong love at the Central Station, janitor Květa (Marie Ludvíková). Nebel decides to return to the mountains to meet the deaf man again and bring the battle with the dark shadows of the past to an end.