RUDÉ BOTY
RED SHOES
Anna Podskalská / Czech Republic / 2021 / 14 min / Colour
Róza is a peasant girl. Hers is a life of toil. She is consoled by the desire to dance at the village festival. But when the traditional dance begins, no one asks Róza to dance, until a stranger enters the hall and invites her, offering her a pair of red shoes. With those shoes, Róza dances like no other and until she is exhausted. But that dance soon turns into a desire and she, in the end, a condemnation, when the young woman cannot take off those demon-possessed shoes. Only the inevitable, crude intervention of her mother will free her from this curse. Inspired by the ancient European fairy tale, made famous by Hans Christian Andersen, the animation is accompanied by an overwhelming soundtrack that captures the frenzy of the dance and the curse of the girl, overwhelmed by her own desire.
Anna Podskalská
She lives and works in Prague as an animator, director and art designer. She attended the Brno High School of Art and Design and studied Animation at FAMU. She has made numerous short films and specialized in the animation technique with painting on glass, used in the realization of La Traversée (Florence Miailhe, 2021) and Rudé Boty, presented at the Festival of Cannes as well as at other festivals.
Credits
Screenplay Anna Podskalská, Matěj PodskalskýCinematography Anna Podskalská, Jaroslav FišerSound Václav KopelecEditing Matěj PodskalskýMusic Matěj PodskalskýProducer Mária MoťovskáProduction company FAMU - Film and TV School od the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
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