Prezident Blaník is a Czech satirical film directed by

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. It stars

Marek Daniel Marek Daniel (born 13 September 1971) is a Czech actor. He appeared in more than 20 films since 1996 and had lead roles in '' Protector'' and ''Prezident Blaník Prezident Blaník is a Czech satirical film directed by Marek Najbrt. It stars Ma ...

as a fictional Czech lobbyist Antonín "Tonda" Blaník. Blaník is the main protagonist of the satirical web series ''Kancelář Blaník''. The film is about Blaník's candidacy in the 2018 presidential election.

Background

The character of Tonda Blaník was introduced by web television Stream as a protagonist of the satirical series ''Kancelář Blaník''. The series parodies Czech politics. On 12 October 2017, a video was released in which Blaník announced his candidacy for Czech president. The creators held meetings with people with Marek Daniel in character as Blaník. On 9 November 2017, Blaník attended the first presidential debate. On the same day the creators announced that Blaník's candidacy was part of the preparation for a new film called ''Prezident Blaník''. The plot of the film would react to the actual election. Filming concluded on 20 December 2017. Multiple endings were filmed with the final ending to depend on the result of the real election.

Synopsis

Tonda Blaník discovers that, according to one interpretation of the

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, he would be able to sell the Czech Republic if he was President. He decides to sell the country to China and announces his candidacy for the 2018 presidential election and starts gathering signatures. He promises voters corruption available to everybody and Lithium for every family. He gathers 100,000 signatures but his assistant Žížala fails to bring the signatures to the Ministry of Interior, and Blaník is therefore not registered. He decides to support one of other candidates but doesn't know who will win. He decides to convince all the other candidates of his plan, with the exception of

Miloš Zeman Miloš Zeman (; born 28 September 1944) is a Czech politician who served as the third president of the Czech Republic from 2013 to 2023. He also previously served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. As leader of the Cze ...

. Blaník subsequently has a change of heart and decides to support Zeman, because he is the only candidate who won't sell the Czech Republic to China. Blaník supports Zeman but finds out that Zeman sold the Czech republic to Russia and decides to steal the national jewels and flee the country. He changes his mind at the border.

Cast

as Tonda Blaník *

Michal Dalecký Michal Dalecký (born 30 December 1968) is a Czech rower. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcel ...

as Žížala *

Halka Třešňáková ''Halka'' is an opera by Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko to a libretto written by Włodzimierz Wolski, a young Warsaw poet with radical social views. It is part of the canon of Polish national operas. Performance history The first perform ...

as Lenka * Jakub Železný as himself * Tomáš Sokol as himself * Tomáš Sedláček as himself *

Ladislav Špaček Ladislav is a Czech, Slovak and Croatian variant of the Slavic name Vladislav. The female form of this name is Ladislava. Folk etymology occasionally links ''Ladislav'' with the Slavic goddess Lada. Spellings and variations In Bulgarian and ...

as himself *

Tomáš Klus Tomáš Klus (born 15 May 1986) is a Czech musician and songwriter from the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. Life and career Klus was born in the industrial town of Třinec, where he spent most of his childhood. His parents were ...

as himself *

Jan Potměšil Jan Potměšil (born 31 March 1966 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech actor. In summer 1989, he finished his lectures at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and joined Divadlo na Vinohradech. Later that year, he h ...

as himself *

Helena Třeštíková Helena Třeštíková (born 22 June 1949) is a Czech documentary film director. She became known for making “time-lapse” long-term observational documentary films that won many awards. She briefly served as the Minister of Culture of the Czec ...

as herself *

Ivo Mathé Ivo is a masculine given name, in use in various European languages. The name used in western European languages originates as a Normannic name recorded since the High Middle Ages, and the French name Yves is a variant of it. The unrelated So ...

as himself *

Jan Hřebejk Jan Hřebejk (; born 27 June 1967) is a Czech film director and actor. Life and career Born in Prague, Hřebejk graduated from high school in 1987 and continued his studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague ...

as himself * Roman Vaněk as himself *

Olga Sommerová Olga may refer to: People and fictional characters * Olga (name), a given name, including a list of people and fictional characters named Olga or Olha * Michael Algar (born 1962), English singer also known as "Olga" Places Russia * Olga, Russia ...

as herself *

Ivan Bartoš Ivan Bartoš (born 20 March 1980) is a Czech civil rights activist and politician for the Czech Pirate Party, who served as the Minister of Regional Development and Deputy Prime Minister for Digitalization in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala from ...

as himself (and a father of Lenka's son) The film also features real presidential candidates such as

Jiří Drahoš Jiří Drahoš (born 20 February 1949; ) is a Czech physical chemist and politician who has been the Senator of Prague 4 since October 2018. Previously, Drahoš served as President of the Czech Academy of Sciences from 2009 to 2017, and was a ca ...

Michal Horáček Michal Horáček (born 23 July 1952) is a Czech Republic, Czech entrepreneur, lyricist, poet, writer, journalist and music producer. From 2007 until 2010, he was the chairman of the Czech Academy of Popular Music. He founded Czech betting compan ...

Mirek Topolánek Mirek Topolánek (, born 15 May 1956) is a Czech Republic, Czech politician and business manager who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 2006 to 2009 and the leader of the Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic), Civic Democr ...

Release

The film was previewed on 30 January 2018 at Lucerna Cinema. The second preview was held on 31 January 2018. It was attended by

Miroslav Kalousek Miroslav Kalousek (born 17 December 1960) is a Czech politician, former leader of KDU-ČSL and TOP 09, and a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1998 until his resignation in 2021. He served twice as Finance Minister in the cabinets of Mir ...

and

. It premiered on 1 February 2018.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prezident Blanik 2018 films 2010s political comedy films 2010s Czech-language films Films about elections Czech political comedy films 2018 Czech presidential election Czech-language comedy films