Catenaccio a la Drnovice or Journey to the Beginning of the Time of Economic Transformation

In the middle of the village of Drnovice, with a population of two thousand, near Vyškov in South Moravia, stands a football stadium for eight thousand spectators. It is a pyramid of a defunct football civilization, once ruled by famous names such as Karel Brückner and Radek Drulák. The rise and fall of the Drnovice football club is typical of Czech football, politics, and business in the 1990s—behind it lie not only beautiful goals, but also mysterious sponsors, corruption, and doping. Let's travel back to a time when even the highest-ranking government officials couldn't tell heating oil from gasoline, and when Czech footballers were playing for the European title.

Igor Chmela

Commentary (voice)

Václav Bělohradský

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Vladimír Benáček

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Lubomír Mlčoch

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Pavel Klvač

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Petr Fischer

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Miroslav Petříček

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• Radim ProcházkaDirector · Producer · Story
• Tomáš VachProducer
• Jakub HalousekDirector of Photography
• Josef KrajbichEditor

Release date

September 2, 2010

Status

Released

Original language

Czech

Runtime

57m

Genres

Documentary