Documentary films

Studio Budíkov manages all the rights to the documentary films of Martin Kratochvíl and films made in co-production. On these pages you will find a list of all the films, including short description and technical parameters. Information on the extent of all rights is available from us on request.

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ARABIA FELIX – miniatures

(Ararat 3’15, Hasankeyf 2’17, Lake Van 2’41, Livestock Market 3’46, A Prayer In The Mosque 1’54, Ani – The Ghost Town 2‘30, The Palace Of Isaac Pasha 2’15, Istanbul 4’12, Sanaa 1’45, Sanaa Market 3’03, Karavanserai 3’24, Shaharah 3’17, The Mountain Fortress 2’04, The Lord of Desert 3’47, Al Hudaydah 3’04, Fish Market 2’32, The Oldest Town 2’29, Ta’ízz 2’26, Jiblah 2’30, The Wedding In The Immam’s House 2’30, Hababa 3’28, Kawkaban, 2’30, Al Mahweed 2’47, A Concert In Hajjarah 3’14, Manakhah 3’03, Ammán 3’13, Petra 3’06, The Rock Temples Of Petra 2’50, Vádí Ram 3’11, Aqaba 2’57, Bosra 3’10, The Shiite Mosque In Damascus 3’27, The Umajjad Mosque 2’43, The Prayers 2’07, On The Street Of Damascus 3’07, Muscat 2’20, The Old Muscat 1’58, The Fish Market In Muscat 3’07, Sur 2’19, The Land And Desert 3’07, Nizwa 2’51, Jabrin Fortress 2’34, Hajar 2’08, Al Hamra 2‘08)

Year of production: 2012
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: see above
Format: full HD 1920x1080
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: no commentary, just music and subtitles

Forty four short documents from travels in Arabia. They were shot in Omman, Yemen, Jordan, Syria and Turkey. A sole aestetics of beatiful pictures edited to previously recorded music rather then strict time and topographic accuracy are the key to these miniatures. Each picture contains one or two episodes divided by the change in music sweetening. The subtitles are used to direct the episodes geographicaly. The facts of life in Arabia are sometimes more evident on the details of a short film then in a focus of a classical documentary.

SIAM (Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Viet-nam) – miniatures

(On the Streets of Rangoon 3'35, Shwedagon Pagoda 4'04, Golden Monasteries 3'27, Initiation 2'48, The Market Place 3'06, The Mountain Tribes 3'57, A Village 4'58, A Visit to the Mountain Tribes 2'00, The Dragon Dance 1'17, City of Kings 4'07, Good Craftsmanship Always Pays 2'35, The Holy Mountain 1'24, Pagoda Landscapes 2'28, Ayeyarwaddy 2'43, Bagan 3'28, The Temple Town of Bagan 2'25, Mount Popa 3'27, How Do You Do It? 1'49, Life by the Lake 2'40, Inle Lake 3'50, Kaosan Road, Bangkok Temples 3'44, Wat Arun 2'50, Laying Buddha 1'31, Chiang Mai 2'49, The Elephant School 4'13, Tha Ton and the Nam Kok River 2'03, A Temple in Chiang Rai 1'50, A Port on Mekong River 2'43, The Golden Triangle 1'53, Mekong 2'36, Drumming Monks 2'16, On the Banks of Mekong 2'38, The Evening in Luang Prabang 2'23, The Pak Ou Cave 3'47, Vang Vieng 2'29, Pha That Luang 3'02, On the Street at Night 1'46, Buddha Park 3'11, Angkor Wat, A Different Christmas 4'29, Angkor Thom 2'51, Faded Glory 2'19, The Stone Remembers 2'40, The Jungle Concert 2'05, Hariharalaya 3'20, The Victory of Nature 3'01, On the Road to Vietnam, Saigon by Night 2'42, On the Streets of Saigon 2'47, The Show 2'39, Nha Trang Pagoda 2'44, Monsoon 3'25, The Gamblers 2'04, Hanoi Delicacies 2'39, Street Life 3'52, The Temple Of Konfucius 3'31, The Concert 1'46, Halong Bay 3'05, A Romantic Voyage 2'47)

Year of production: 2013
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: 60 short fillers, average length cca 3 min., total time 2°53’
Format: full HD 1920x1080
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: no commentary, just music and subtitles

60 short miniatures – fillers without comments from many trips to Siam peninsula. They were shot in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Viet-nam. The key to editting was not the logic of travelling, but rather an esthetics of picture and music. It is just one or two episodes that constitute the single picture. Music may create the natural structuring. The subtitles are used to form the geographical information. Sometime it is a sharp film detail what expresses the realia of Siam the best way.

THE BUDDHISM IN BURYATIA

Year of production: 2013
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: 26 min.
Format: 3D, full HD 1920x1080, compatible to 2D full HD
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: Czech

The documentary illustrates the saga of Buryat Tibetan buddhism from the early days of infiltration from Tibet and Mongolia, its peripeties in the time of religious repression in the Stalin era, to the situation of today. The film uses the testimony of shamans, lamas and scholars from the universities in Irkutsk and Ulan Ude. It shows the enormous attempt to build the new stupas and monasteries on the places of the old ones. This demonstrates the ever existing national looking for identity in the old believes of the fathers and grandfathers.

THE SIBERIA – miniatures

(Irkutsk 2‘46, The New Temple 1‘33, The Choir of Buryats 2‘56, Western Baikal 3‘28, Arshan 4‘53, Ulan Ude 3‘12, Buriat Shaman 2‘16, A Skanzen in Ulan Ude 3‘25, Eastern Baikal 3‘56, Festival Altargana I. 4‘39, Festival Altargana II. 3‘44, Festival Altargana III. 2‘55)

Year of production: 2013
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: 12 short fillers, average length cca 4 min., total time 2°53’
Format: 3D, full HD 1920x1080, compatible to 2D full HD
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: no commentary, just music and subtitles

12 miniatures – fillers from the expedition to Siberia, mostly east from Baikal Lake. The scheme of making the short movies is solely the esthetics of picture and music, not the logic and rationality of the matter. It is music that divide mostly just two episodes constituing the picture. The subtitles give the geographical information and orientation. No narration is used.

SRÍ LANKA – miniatures

(Negombo 2‘38, A Life |With The Ocean 5‘00, The Galle Mariage Ceremony 2‘10, Mirisa 3‘08, Matara 2‘02, Yale National Park 3‘12, Arugam Bay 2‘06, Anuradhapura 4‘20, Sigiriya 4‘27, Dambulla 3‘49, Polonaruwa 4‘20, Aluvihara 2‘48, Kandy 3‘24, Where Tea is grown 4‘34, Horton Plains 3‘02)

Year of production: 2013
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: 15 short fillers, average length cca 3-4 min., total time 51’00”
Format: 3D, full HD 1920x1080, compatible to 2D full HD
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: no commentary, just music and subtitles

15 short films from the expedition to Srí Lanka. They show the beautiful seas, national parks and old archeological sites with stupas and temples. The scheme of making the short movies is solely the esthetics of picture and music, not the logic and rationality of the matter. It is music that divide mostly just two episodes constituing the picture. The subtitles give the geographical information and orientation. No narration is used.

MUSTANG – miniatures

(Káthmándú 3‘00, Bhulbule 3‘13, Around Bhulbule 4‘54, The Game 2‘29, A Way To Nar 5‘46, Yunkar Gompa 3‘00, Nar 3‘40, Teri La 5‘17, The Nomads 2‘18, The Ascend 3‘13, Tinge 4‘56, A Land Of Deserts 3‘45, Yara 2‘15, Lo Manthang 4‘45, Lo Manthang Gompa 4‘18, The Labour 3‘17, Killings 5‘13, Kali Gandaki 3‘54, The Departure 2‘39)

Year of production: 2013
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: 19 short fillers, average length cca 3-4 min., total time 1°52’
Format: 3D, full HD 1920x1080, compatible to 2D full HD
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: no commentary, just music and subtitles

19 miniatures from the adventures travers of the Himalayan main mountain chain to Lo Manthang in Mustang. Lo is situated on the upper stream of Kali Gandaki river separating the huge massives of Annapurnas and Dhaulagiri. The picture shows the beauties of Nepal’s eight thousand meters giants as well as the life under the mountains. The scheme of making the short movies is solely the esthetics of picture and music, not the logic and rationality of the matter. It is music that divide mostly just two episodes constituing the picture. The subtitles give the geographical information and orientation. No narration is used.

THE KINGDOM OF MUSTANG

(Ganesh Himal, Manaslu Himal, Mustang, Lo Manthang)

Year of production: 2014
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: 4 x 50 min.
Format: 3D, full HD 1920x1080, compatible to 2D full HD
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: Czech

The four part documentary of the long journey to the mythical kingdom of Mustang, only recently opened to the eyes of Westernes. The route leads along the main Himalayan massive. It starts in Ganesh Himal to continue along Manaslu over Larkya La pass to the Annapurnas. There it deviates north to the Tibetan town of Nar and Teri pass to Mustang. The expedition was given an audience by the king. The series is created as a journey sequence, sometimes with the commentary on the site.

THE WILD TRIBES OF ETHIOPIA

Year of production: 2014
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: 52 min.
Format: full HD 1920x1080
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: Czech

A documentary film from the south of Ethiopia, from the expedition to the national parks on the down stream of Omo river on the border with Kenia. The expedition starts at Addis Ababa to go south along the lakes rich of wild life. The main focus is aimed at the tribes of this region, its rites and life style.

MARTIN KRATOCHVÍL & JAZZ Q

Year of production: 2014
Written and directed by: Petr Kaňka
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: 58 min.
Format: full HD 1920x1080
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: Czech

A documentary of 50th anniversary of a well known jazz-rock group Jazz Q. Full of historical takes and wild concerts, endles tours and road stories. It ends with a concert at Malostranska Beseda to celebrate the anniversary.

API – THE QUEEN OF MOUNTAINS

Year of production: 2015
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: 45 min.
Format: full HD 1920x1080, 3D 1920x1080
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: Czech

A documentary film from the expedition to the remote Nepal seven thousand meter mountain. It is located near the north-west upmost corner of Nepal, where the the borders of China, Nepal and India meet. Not far from the sacred mountain Kailás from neighbouring Tibet. The pilgrimage routes to Kailás and Api are identical and both copy the Mahakali river.
The expedition proceeds along the damaged and almost non-existent trek on the left bank of Mahakali to the Api base camp and the beautiful lakes of West Ridge. From there it descends through very sparcely inhibited land of south side of Api to the Ghunsa town and back to the civilisation.