Lean a Ladder Against Heaven
Year:
2014
Duration:
100 min
Motive:
Jana Ševčíková
Screenplay:
Jana Ševčíková
Director:
Jana Ševčíková
Director of photography:
Jaromír Kačer
Editor:
Eva Mesteková
Dramaturgy:
Ivan Arsenjev
Sound:
Jaroslav Jehlička, Michal Míček, Michal Gábor, Jan Paul, Adam Bezděk
Music:
Klarinet factory / Alan Vitouš, Vladimír Martinka
Production:
Jana Ševčíková
Coproduction:
I/O POST, Studio Virtual
Film was produced with support of The Czech Republic State Fund for Support and Development of Czech Cinematography.
Synopsis
Marian Kuffa is a priest in a small village of Zakovce in Slovakia. At his presbytery he cares for the homeless, former prisoners, boys and girls from orphanages, the handicapped and abused mothers with children. Altogether, the priest has hosted almost two hundred people. Some die, some are born, people come and go…
A film about strong faith and the value of sacrifice, about how much one person is capable of giving for another, how much he loses like this as well as how much he wins.
Trailer
link to film: https://dafilms.com/film/9800-lean-a-ladder-against-heaven
Stills from the movie
Documentary films by
Jana Ševčíková:
- Worldly Children (1981)
- Piemule (1983)
- Jakub (1992)
- The Old Believers (2001)
- The Rite of Spring (2002)
- Gyumri (2008)
- Lean a Ladder Against Heaven (2014)
- Those Who Dance in the Dark (2022)