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We Have Never Been Modern
Director
Matěj Chlupáček
Country
Czech Republic, Slovakia
Year
2023
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Miro Šifra
Cast
Eliška Křenková, Miloslav König, Milan Ondrík, Richard Langdon, Martha Issová, Luboš Veselý, Ladislav Hampl, Marian Mitas
Production
Barletta Production
https://www.kviff.com/en/programme/film/63/40698-we-have-never-been-modern

Storyline

Together with her husband she came to build a utopian world in the middle of pure nature. Helena, the pregnant wife of the factory manager, is about to give birth and her family is facing a rosy future in a modern city. But all her illusions will soon perish. All it takes is the dead body of a newborn hermaphrodite to be found in the middle of their factory. Helena needs to find out what happened here for the safety of her own child, but she runs into her own prejudices... The story is inspired by the true story of intersex people in the 1930s, shortly before the war destroyed everything.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2023
Crystal Globe Competition