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Award-winning Czech director finishes film

"Tobruk" covers World War II in Libya

November 28th, 2007 issue

(Updated Dec. 5, 2007) Czech film director Václav Marhoul has finished his historical World War II historical film "Tobruk", according to Fantom news agency.

The film is about members of the 11th Czechoslovak infantry battalion who fought alongside British, Australian, Polish and South African forces in northern Libya in 1941.
Marhoul said that, rather than making a historical documentary, he wanted to show the lives of soldiers realistically, focusing on the "very thin line between heroism and cowardice."
"Courage is a strength of will that no man can have too much of. It tends to get used up very fast. Courage is a form of capital, which we spend little by little. There's a point when any kind of order can be like a withdrawal from an almost empty bank account," Marhoul said.
In 2006, Marhoul's screenplay won the Czech round of the American Hartley-Merrill Prize, sponsored by Roberta Redford and Nikita Michalkova for beginning European screenwriters.
The 60 million Kč ($3.4 million) budget for the film was paid for by Čěská Televise, the Czech Defense Ministry, RWE Transgas and Poštovní Spořitelna and the National Cinematography Fund.
About 50 of the 60 days of filming were done on location in the Libyan desert.
The film will open in Czech cinemas on Sept. 11, 2008.


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