39th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Czech Republic, July 2 - July 10 2004

The jury

Yves Thoraval (France), Alin Tasciyan (Turkey), Mariola Wiktor (Poland), Martin Thomas Dahlström (Sweden), Jan Foll (Czech Republic)

Awarded films

My Stepbrother Frankenstein by Valery Todorovsky
(Russia, 2004, 111 mins)

Reports

East is East by Yves Thoraval
The Two Poles of the Central European Hyperbole by Jan Foll
When the Winner Looses by Martin Thomas Dahlström
Daily Routine in Northern Iraq by Alin Tasciyan
There is No Good Without Evil by Mariola Wiktor

“The life of a prosperous Moscow family is shattered when the husband learns that he has a grown up son from a short encounter with a woman he even cannot remember…”: Valery Todorovsky’s film “My Stepbrother Frankenstein” is the winner of the Critics Prize at this major event which offers a meeting point between Eastern and Western European cinematographies.

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