Regardless, he and co-writer and director Irena Pavlásková have shaped a story in Fotograf that is both fascinating and dramatically satisfying. There are two possibilities here: either Saudek is presenting an exaggerated portrait of his tabloid lifestyle (which is entirely possible – the painter jokes with Roden that the filmmakers should “give the audience what they want” at the beginning) or he’s being brutally honest with the filmmakers here. Jan Saudek wasn’t the nicest guy in the world, according to Irena Pavlásková’s new pseudo-biopic Fotograf (English title: Photographer), which claims to be “loosely based” on events in the famed Czech photographer’s life.īeginning after the fall of communism in the early 1990s, when Saudek is already one of the most renowned photographers the country has produced, Fotograf intimately details how the man mistreats the women in his life, which include both a number of ex-wives and current lovers, ignores his children, drinks himself into blackouts, gives in to his sexual fetishes with wild abandon, and generally presents himself as arrogant and inconsiderate.Īnd yet, we have no reason to doubt the veracity of the film’s claims, because (incredibly) it was co-written by Saudek himself, who also appears together with actor Karel Roden (who plays the photographer in the film) in bumper scenes at the beginning and end.
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