The State Capture (SK / CZ 2019, 79 min)
concept and director: Zuzana Piussi
editor: Šimon Špidla
DOP: Miro Remo
producers: Maroš Berák - Ultrafilm (SK), Vít Janeček - D1film (CZ)
dramaturgy: Vít Janeček
animation: Vojtěch Mašek, Marek Pokorný
poster: Marek Kianička
support: Audiovisual Fund (SK) + 262 crowdfunders
sales: D1film
Materials to download
Poster - print quality
Poster - web quality
Digital poster for multiplexes 792x1080 1080x1920
Photos of the film - print quality (zip, 114 Mb)
Photos of the film - web quality (zip, 9 Mb)
Photo of the director (c) Karel Cudlín - free for film promotion reasons
About the film
A film The State Capture gives a complex insight into the gap in political reality of Slovakia - one of the EU countries - which became visible after an investigative journalists Ján Kuciak and his fiancée has been brutally murdered at their home. Following mass demonstrations led to substantial changes in the country's government, but the film doesn't follow history, but much more the universal processes behind the curtain. Journalists, (ex?)-officers of secret services, lawyers and analysts helps to reveal detective story in search of whom ordered to murder a journalist and an innocent girl. But main concern of the film is to reflect mechanisms of oligarchy and mafias (including the Italian) to blackmail key players of the system, to influence public perception and to penetrate police, judiciary and the government in their efforts to rule the country in the ways leading to their profits.
Trailer