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2015 Czech film

The Snake Brothers

Directed by	Jan Prušinovský
Screenplay by	Jaroslav Žváček
Produced by	Ondřej Zima, Jan Prušinovský
Starring	Kryštof Hádek, Matěj Hádek
Music by	Matěj Matuška, Michal Čech
Distributed by	Falcon
Release date	19 February 2015 (2015-02-19)
Running time	111 minutes
Country	Czech Republic
Language	Czech
Budget	20 million Kč
Box office	$384,725

The Snake Brothers (Czech: Kobry a užovky, literally Cobras and Grass Snakes) is a 2015 Czech crime drama film directed by Jan Prušinovský. The film is set in a small Czech town Kralupy nad Vltavou in central Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Cast

Matěj Hádek as Vojtěch "Grass Snake" Šťastný
Kryštof Hádek as Petr "Cobra" Šťastný
Jan Hájek as Tomáš
Lucie Žáčková as Zůza
David Máj as Ládík
Věra Kubánková as Grandma
Jana Šulcová - as Mother
Lucie Polišenská as Kača

Reception

The film has received generally positive reviews. It holds 74% at Kinobox, a Czech film review aggregator.

Awards

The Screenplay was awarded by Film foundation in 2011.

The film won Best Actor Award at 2015 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for Kryštof Hádek. Kryštof noted that the award belongs to his brother Matěj too.

In March 2016 the film won the Czech Lion prize for best film. It also won in the categories of Best Director (Jan Prušinovský), Best Cinematography (Petr Koblovský), Best Actor (Matěj Hádek) and Best Actor and Actress in supporting roles (Kryštof Hádek and Lucie Žáčková). It also won two non-statutory prizes for Best Poster Award and the Prize of film fans. It did not win another 6 nominations (best screenplay, editing, sound, set design, costumes and masks).

References

"2015 Czech Republic Yearly Box Office Results". www.boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
"Recenze filmu Kobry a Užovky". Kinobox.cz. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
Fila, Kamil. "Tenhle život na odstřel". Respekt. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
"Ve Varech bodovali Češi. Glóby si odnesli Třeštíková, Hádek a Mihulová". Novinky.cz. Retrieved 11 July 2015.

v t e Czech Lion for Best Film
Big Beat (1993) Thanks for Every New Morning (1994) The Garden (1995) Kolya (1996) Buttoners (1997) Sekal Has to Die (1998) The Idiot Returns (1999) Divided We Fall (2000) Little Otik (2001) Year of the Devil (2002) Boredom in Brno (2003) Up and Down (2004) Something Like Happiness (2005) I Served the King of England (2006) Little Girl Blue (2007) The Karamazov Brothers (2008) Protector (2009) Walking Too Fast (2010) Poupata (2011) In the Shadow (2012) Burning Bush (2013) The Way Out (2014) The Snake Brothers (2015) A Prominent Patient (2016) Ice Mother (2017) Winter Flies (2018) The Painted Bird (2019) Charlatan (2020) Zátopek (2021) Il Boemo (2022) Brothers (2023)

Czech Lion for Best Film

Big Beat (1993)
Thanks for Every New Morning (1994)
The Garden (1995)
Kolya (1996)
Buttoners (1997)
Sekal Has to Die (1998)
The Idiot Returns (1999)
Divided We Fall (2000)
Little Otik (2001)
Year of the Devil (2002)
Boredom in Brno (2003)
Up and Down (2004)
Something Like Happiness (2005)
I Served the King of England (2006)
Little Girl Blue (2007)
The Karamazov Brothers (2008)
Protector (2009)
Walking Too Fast (2010)
Poupata (2011)
In the Shadow (2012)
Burning Bush (2013)
The Way Out (2014)
The Snake Brothers (2015)
A Prominent Patient (2016)
Ice Mother (2017)
Winter Flies (2018)
The Painted Bird (2019)
Charlatan (2020)
Zátopek (2021)
Il Boemo (2022)
Brothers (2023)

v t e Czech Lion - Film Fans Award
Burning Bush (2013) Fair Play (2014) The Snake Brothers (2015) Anthropoid (2016) Barefoot (2017) Smiles of Sad Men (2018) Women on the Run (2019) Caught in the Net (2020) Zátopek (2021) Nineties (2022) Restore Point (2023)

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