POSLEDNÍ TRIK GEORGESE MELIESE
- Organiser
- DIVADLO DRAK a MIFD
The theatrical performance is a tribute to the world of magic, film and imagination. The production is inspired by the life story and work of the French film director and pioneer of cinematography Georges Mélies, who lived from 1861 to 1938. The story follows a man destined to inherit his father's shoe shop who preferred to draw instead. After seeing a magic show in London he became a magician himself, bought his own theatre where he made women vanish and turn into butterflies, attended the first screening by the Lumière brothers, and became a film maker who created the world's first film studio. The director of the production is Jiří Havelka, the set designer is Marek Zákostelecký, the dramaturg is Dominika Špalková and the music is by DVA. The cast features Luděk Smadiš, Jan Popela, Milan Hajn, Šimon Dohnálek and Johana Vavřínová.