Awards
Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema 2000
Childrens and Youth Film Competition, Special PrizeMax Ophüls Festival 2001
Promotional Award to Iva Svarcova
Selb Film Festival 2001
Audience Award
Sochi International Film Festival 2001
FIPRESCI Prize
Grand Prix
1969: The first winter after the violent end of the Spring of Prague. Just as three astronauts are flying to the moon, thirteen-year-old Hannah and her crazy young parents land in the German economic wonderland. A rough landing, as though on a completely different planet. Her father Kuba feels satisfaction in finding confirmation of his prejudices against the Germans, her mother Lida loses herself in consumerism, and her little sister loses her ability to speak. Hannah wants nothing more than to return to her grandfather, Zikmund. But when Zikmund dies and Neil Armstrong sets the first foot on the moon, Hannah realizes that she too will have to make her own first great step.
The National Center For Jewish Film
Brandeis University, Lown 102, MS053, Waltham MA 02454
P: (781) 899 7044, F: (781) 736 2070
When Grandpa Loved Rita Hayworth
Czechoslovakia/Germany, 2000, 90 min, color
Czech and German w/ English subtitled
Directed by Iva Svarcova$90 Institutional Use DVD, VHS
Public Exhibition 35mm, Beta Rental also available
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