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.
MUGU and DOLPO in West Nepal
(Where history is lost, Where foxes give a good night, Where history has been found)
Year of production: 2016
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: 3 x 26 min.
Format: full HD 1920x1080
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: Czech
A three-part documentary series from the most remote and least populated area of western Nepal. The expedition followed the route from the former capital of the West Nepalese Tibetan states of Jumla around the largest freshwater lake Rara through the forgotten Mugu to Shey Gompa. A road full of uncertain trails in an almost uninhabited mountainous area leads to Dolpa, where a substantial part of Nepalese history took place. The 302 km long route exceeded the 34 km altitude elevation gain in 23 days. In addition to the physical demands, however, it shows a number of little accessible villages and monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism, where today "foxes give a good night".
POSTCARD OF MARTIN KRATOCHVIL
(Bagan 5'35 “, Bhamo 4'45, Golden Rock 4'41, Iravadi 4'39, Koh Jum 3'58, Mandalay 3'56, Vanity of Vanity 3'55, Mawlamyine 4'47, Myeik 4'06 , Peach Anda 3'59, Phonyin Razi 10'04, Sacred Caves 4'24, Friend of Man II 4'30, Friend of Man I 4'26, Fishermen 4'10, Schwegadon paya 4'27, Sule pagoda 4'43, Tarutao 4'10, Golden Pagoda 5'25)Year of production: 2017
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: see above
Format: full HD 1920x1080
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: Czech
Annotated short postcards from Barma and the Andaman Sea coast.
YUKON GOLDEN FEVER
Year of production: 2018
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: 46 min.
Format: full HD 1920x1080
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: Czech
The 746 kilometers of the Yukon River between Whitehorse, Canada and Dawson City is not only a fantastic treasure trove of wildlife, but its rafting is also a solid canoeing performance. The presence of bears, beavers, and other animals almost extinct in civilized Europe is a common occurrence on the banks of a wild river and sometimes in camps. But what makes the Yukon and its famous tributaries Klondike and Bonanza so famous is the gold rush of 1897-8. From a population of 1,200 in the first year of fever, Dawson inflated to 38ooo in 1898! The world's greatest adventurers tried their luck here, and many never returned from a place near the Arctic Circle and the land of permafrost. One of them was a Czech native Jan Eskymo Welzl ...
EXPLORERS
Year of production: 2019
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: 48 min.
Format: full HD 1920x1080
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: Czech
Harold William Tilman, along with the famous Erich Shipton, Elder Francis Younghusband and other pioneers of Himalayan climbing, are certainly in the Hall of Fame. Although these humble discoverers often do not reap the laurels of peak success, their merits for the expeditions are enormous.
It was they who, as early as the 1930s, but especially in the 1949-50 season, made major topographical discoveries leading to the reach of Everest by the southern route.
Tilman was a typical representative of the old era. He lived only for adventure travel, yachting and climbing. Many of his biographies call him an English dandy, or gentleman, often the last hero of the mythical times of the British Empire.
He left his biggest imprint in the high mountains - his ascents to Mt Kenya and Kilimanjaro, the first ascent to Nanda Devi and the pioneering routes in the Nepalese Himalayas covered in this document are well known.
THE LAND OF CHINGISCHAN AROUND THE ORCHON RIVER
Year of production: 2019
Written and directed by: Martin Kratochvíl
Music by: Martin Kratochvíl
Running time: 40 min.
Format: full HD 1920x1080
Produced by: Studio Budíkov
Language version: Czech
Virginly clean, only sporadically populated and extensive is the Orchon River basin in northern Mongolia. Wild animals, green pastures and clouds glazing the horizon to infinity, create a unique color of the river, which thaws only from May to November and whose subsoil, as well as the surrounding soil is eternally frozen land.
In the Orchon Valley, a number of vast empires were established, which in history ruled much of Asia, but in the early thirteenth century extended as far as Europe, India, Russia, and China.
The power of Khan Genghis captured states and empires that seemed invincible. With only nine armies of 10,000 men at the time, he controlled 23 percent of the world's known land. No one succeeded before or after him; Alexander the Great, Stalin, or Napoleon stand far in his shadow. In this historical setting, a film documentary about the congress takes place
570 km long river.
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