Wrong Side Up is a 2005 Czech comedy-drama film written and directed by Petr Zelenka

Petr Zelenka

Petr Zelenka is an award-winning Czech playwright and director of theatre and film. His films have been recognized at international festivals in Moscow and Rotterdam...

. It is an adaptation of Zelenka's play Tales of Common Insanity

Tales of Common Insanity

Tales of Common Insanity is a play by Petr Zelenka which won the Alfréd Radok Award for Best Play. After its opening in Prague, the play received productions in other Czech cities, as well as translations and productions in Slovakia, Kraków, Poland, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Germany,...

. It is a tale of people showing their internal loneliness by their choices in life.

Plot

A former aircrew member (Petr) is no longer flying, but works in an aviation-related dead-end job, loading boxes at an air-cargo company. He spends his working hours dreaming of re-winning the hand of his former fianceé (Jana), who has moved on to another man whose prospects seem better. He spends his off hours surreptitiously observing a female neighbor.

His parents also face personal problems: his mother has involved herself in causes promoting world peace but ignores her collapsing family; his father is fighting a midlife crisis by trying to promote an extramarital affair with a colleague.

Cast

• Ivan Trojan
  Ivan Trojan
  Ivan Trojan is a Czech actor.He graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1988 and Realistické divadlo Zdeňka Nejedlého in Prague-Smíchov. In 1992 he moved to Divadlo na Vinohradech...
  
   as Petr
• Zuzana Šulajová
  Zuzana Šulajová
  Zuzana Šulajová is a Slovak stage, television and film actress.-Biography:...
  
   as Jana
• Miroslav Krobot
  Miroslav Krobot
  Miroslav Krobot is a Czech theatre director and film actor. He starred in the film The Man from London, which was entered into the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Wrong Side Up...
  
   as Father
• Nina Divíšková as Mother
• Jiří Bartoška
  Jirí Bartoška
  Jiří Bartoška is a Czech actor and the president of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.Bartoška played a number of roles in many Czech films, later he became most known as the president of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival...
  
   as Jiří

Awards

• 2006, Bronza Rosa Camuna - Best director, Bergamo
  Bergamo
  Bergamo is a town and comune in Lombardy, Italy, about 40 km northeast of Milan. The comune is home to over 120,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent the metropolitan area of Milan...
  
   Film Meeting
• 2006, Czech Lions: Best sound
• 2006, Czech Lions: Best supporting actor

External links

• Wrong Side Up, Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
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