Tomáš Nováček

Czech Republic

Tomáš Nováček

director of photography

Robert Musil

The life story of one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, the Austro Hungarian officer, passionate swimmer, tennis player and fencer, engineer, passionate smoker and a drinker of coffee, a man who loved money but lived almost all his life from support from his parents and patrons, and front-line officer newsletters, ironist and author several decades working on his fundamental, never finished - and unfinishable - novel The Man without Qualities, dandy, mathematician, philosopher Robert Musil, all this is the theme of the documentary Robert Musil.

Flannel Poker - Millionaire from a Block of Flats

A documentary film about a game that skirts the boundary between sports and gambling. Poker draws the attention of the Czech citizens after Martin Staszek came close to winning in Las Vegas last year. This intellectually challenging game that involves millions of dollars attracts more and more people. What is it like to live with wins and losses, ups and downs, extreme tension beneath the facade of indifference behind the walls of glittering casinos? How do the players live and what skills must they have to be able to cope with the demands of poker?