Ivan Ostrochovský
Director · b. 1972 · Zilina, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]
Ivan Ostrochovský (born 11 December 1972, Žilina) is a Slovakian film director, screenwriter and producer. He graduated from Bratislava’s Academy of Performing Arts.
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Movie5.0ComedyDramaJosef is a writer aged sixty, who thinks that nothing can surprise him any more. One evening, though, his phone rings and he finds himself caught up in a series of events that turn his world upside-down. His best friend – also a writer – tries to commit suicide; his young girlfriend Katka tells him she’s pregnant; and the man with hare ears – his alter ego from one of his stories – appears to him in everyday situations.
Movie5.0DramaAfter a painful divorce, 50-year-old Nadia finally finds a good flat for reasonable price for her and her daughter. Too good to be true, and soon, albeit too late, she comes to understand the reason for the bargain. Her close neighbour in the house is mentally ill Valika who terrorises everyone around her. Piussi’s film creates a string of absurd encounters with increasingly menacing effects, but it is – at its core – a fantastically precise film about humanism, its consequences, its possible limits.