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Martin Ryšavý
Tschechische Republik
Biografie
Martin Ryšavý (born 1967 in Prague) is Czech author, screenwriter and director. He studied biology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Charles University and screenwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. He is head of the Department of Screenwriting and Script Editing at FAMU. He has made documentaries with primarily ethnographic themes in Siberia and Vietnam. His third “ethnographic” film Afonka Does Not Want to Herd Reindeer Anymore/Afoňka už nechce pást soby was awarded the best Czech documentary film at the IDFF Jihlava in 2004.
Martin Ryšavý wrote the subject and script of the story Journey/Cesta in the short story film by Roman Vávra In the Rye (1998), the script of the film by Ivan Vojnár Forest Walkers/ Lesní chodci (2003) which he later rewrote in book form, or the script for the television film Aljona (2008). However, his most significant achievement was his two-volume book Journeys to Siberia/Cesty na Sibiř (2008) for which he received the Czech literary Magnesia Litera award in the prose category. In the year of 2010 he received a Pavel Koutecky Award for his latest film Země snů/ The Land of Dreams about community of unemployed Vietnamese workers in the Czech Republic.
Filmography:
Argiš (CZ, 1995)
Rozprava o metodě (CZ, 1997)
Bílá Indiánka (CZ, 1999)
Sibiř - duše v muzeu (72´, CZ, 2003)
Afoňka už nechce pást soby (76´, CZ, 2004)
Kdo mě naučí půl znaku/ Who Will Teach Me the Half of the Character (91´, ČR, 2006)
Malupien, Olšový Spas (93´, ČR, 2008)
Země snů/ The Land of Dreams (57´, ČR, 2009)
Afonka Does Not Want to Herd Reindeer Anymore
Afoňka už nechce pást soby (Orig.) / 2004 / Tschechische Republik / 76 min
The film draws a portrait of the difficult life of the Siberian Evens.
Bananas Kids
Banánové děti (Orig.) / 2009 / Tschechische Republik / 63 min
The main theme is based on comparisons of life stories of several child heroes, or several Vietnamese families settled in the Czech Republic.
Bear Islands
Medvědí ostrovy (Orig.) / 2010 / Tschechische Republik / 60 min
The film captures the life of residents of the Sakha Republic, or Yakutia, Russia's Far Eastern Federal District. Bear Islands are located in the East Siberian Sea at the mouth of the Kolyma River.
Country of Dreams
Země snů (Orig.) / 2009 / Tschechische Republik / 57 min
The Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic is now in a very difficult situation.The majority of economic immigrants come to the Czech Republic already with huge debts.
Who Will Teach Me the Half of the Character
Kdo mě naučí půl znaku (Orig.) / 2006 / Tschechische Republik / 91 min
About the good idea of uncle Ho, respect for teachers and return to homeland or traveling Vietnam in the footsteps of Czechoslovak – Vietnamese friendship.
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