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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary 1938, Prague. Emil, a radio reporter, is married to the beautiful Hana, an actress whose new film has catapulted her into fame. As the Nazis come to power, however, Hana's Jewish heritage precipitates her fall from stardom to the bottom of the social ladder. In order to protect her, Emil compromises himself collaborating with the new Naz...

Directed By: Marek Najbrt

Written By: Robert Geisler, Benjamin Tucek, Marek Najbrt

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 38 m

Protektor

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary 1938, Prague. Emil, a radio reporter, is married to the beautiful Hana, an actress whose new film has catapulted her into fame. As the Nazis come to power, however, Hana's Jewish heritage precipitates her fall from stardom to the bottom of the social ladder. In order to protect her, Emil compromises himself collaborating with the new Naz...

Directed By: Marek Najbrt

Written By: Robert Geisler, Benjamin Tucek, Marek Najbrt

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
49
14% Positive
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86% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Positive
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86% Mixed
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70
Aug 1, 2011
Young director Marek Najbrt, commendably, is not interested in wringing easy tears from the European experience of World War II. In the handsome drama Protektor, he brings a cool, noirish slant to a story of Czech artists and intellectuals as they accommodate and to a lesser extent resist the German occupiers.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 13, 2011
The strong central hour - full of beautifully assembled linking montages and a refreshingly offbeat sense of dramatic timing that could pass for comedy - makes up for a lot, marking Najbrt as a filmmaker to watch.
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60
Aug 5, 2011
Though it remains a little too enigmatic, Marek Najbrt's Holocaust drama is atmospheric enough to keep us edgy on its heroine's behalf.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 4, 2011
Dipping in and out of luminous black and white, Protektor has a distancing glamour that prevents the story from digging in. Burdened by a central relationship so lacking in passion that its fate becomes negligible, the film's narrative feels trivialized by jaunty musical fragments and repetitive cycling and rowing motifs that belabor Emil's metaphorical treadmill of appeasement.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 2, 2011
Najbrt gets the look and feel of noir fatalism down, but storytelling that alternates between roughshod and lethargic means the film doesn't hold together as much more than pretty fragments.
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50
Aug 1, 2011
Engendering an experience both visually slick and narratively sprawling, the apropos-of-nothing professionalism of Protektor often feels more like branding than filmmaking.
By Joseph Jon Lanthier FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 2, 2011
Protektor is simply another in a long line of diluted stories about life during wartime, one whose diminished returns only further trivialize a legacy of real-life horror.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Negativ, Box! Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH, Ceská Televize
Release Date Aug 5, 2011
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.negativ.cz/en/films/protektor/
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Awards

Czech Lions
• 6 Wins & 11 Nominations
Denver International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Vukovar Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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