Private Project

Epos 2.0

In 1967, photographers Jiří Horák, Rostislav Košťál, František Maršálek and Petr Sikula, together with author Ladislav Plch, formed the group EPOS, first as a documentary photography project, but that would develop into staged photography inspired in fashion shots and new wave cinema from the late 60's and early 70's , becoming a strong portrait of the so called Czechoslovak “Big Beat generation” during the period of normalization after the Warsaw Pact Invasion.
50 years later, the same group of artists reunites to re-enact some of their most representative photographs, returning to the same places and meeting the same people who featured on them, while sharing their memories and stories in the whole process, being a different way to understand life in the artistic underground of the political situation of Czechoslovakia's Normalisation in the 1970

  • Emanuele Ruggiero
    Director
    Toro emotions, CZizincii, Auto-Estrada da Liberdade, Fashion goes green
  • António Pedro Nobre
    Director
    Le Prisontologue, 40 years on track, Prokop v Banátu, CZizincI, Auto-Estrada da Liberdade, Fashion goes green
  • António Pedro Nobre
    Writer
    Le Prisontologue, 40 years on track, Prokop v Banátu, CZizincI, Auto-Estrada da Liberdade, Fashion goes green, Celts - The Untold Story, Terra mater, Hitler's Gold
  • Emanuele Ruggiero
    Producer
    Toro emotions, CZizincii, Auto-Estrada da Liberdade, Fashion goes green
  • Jiří Horák
    Key Cast
    Photograher
  • Košťál Košťál
    Key Cast
    Photograher
  • Sikula Sikula
    Key Cast
    Photograher
  • Ladislav Plch
    Key Cast
    Photograher
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Epos 2.0
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    54 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    February 28, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    30,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Czech Republic
  • Country of Filming:
    Czech Republic
  • Language:
    Czech
  • Shooting Format:
    BMCC 4k, Bolex 16mm, Foma film
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Brno
    Czech Republic
    March 4, 2025
    world Premiere
Director Biography - Emanuele Ruggiero, António Pedro Nobre

Emanuele Ruggiero

Awards-winning Film Director & Cinematographer, Art Director, Senior Editor, Video & Brand Director with more than 30 years' cross-genre TV and film experience, in the production of TV formats, music videos, documentaries, advertising and more. Actually Visual Content Museum Director for the upcoming 2025 (May 10th) opening of the Museum "Schindler's Ark", CZ.
My work as Lighting cameraman for The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Institute by Steven Spielberg was very important, the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation aimed to bring as many interviews as possible with the Holocaust survivors to the general public.
Working 11 years in the directing crew of the italian national Tv Serial named "100 Vetrine", my fictional debut as a director, - the short comedy "Never So Close" - brought me many invitations to international short film festivals in Italy and in the world, where I won many different awards.
In the Czech Republic, I produced and directed in 2016 the feature documentary "CZizincII/MYgranti". In 2023 I produced and filmed the feature doc “Fashion Goes Green”, premiered in cinema in Czechia.
Next documentaries coming in 2025 are " Code name: Baletka" and "Epos 2.0" (of which the Première was on March 4th), two solitaires for cinema and tv.

António Pedro Nobre

Graduated in scriptwriting at ATCAS, Lisbon, Portugal. In 1997 he started working at the TV / Cinema / Radio department of international advertising agency McCann Erickson Portugal. Since 2001 he has worked freelance, as a screenwriter and an assistant director of television programs, television commercials, music videos and corporate films, not only in his native country, but also abroad.
Since 2006 he has been collaborating with QQ studio Ostrava in the post production of national TV programs like "Chalupa je hra" (2006 - 2011), "Pod pokličkou" (2007 - 2011) and more recently "Draci v hrnci" (2013 - present).
In 2007, he began to work as a director, specializing in music videos, and teamed up with artists from around the world like Fernando Saunders and Mike Terrana (US), Ashia and the Bison Rouge (Pol/US), Gergo Borlai (Hun) and Czech Artists like Aleš Brichta, Martin Chodúr, Markéta Konvičková, Elis or Dalibor Mráz among many others. He also made documentaries and promotional videos for music and arts festivals such as the Colours of Ostrava, Setkání kytaristů & spol., Janáčkův Máj, Shakespearovské slavnosti Ostrava, Festival Banát, Ostrava Jazz open and Tanec Ostrava.
He has worked with cultural institutions such as the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre, Janáček’s Philharmonic Orchestra, the Janáček‘s Conservatory and Gymnasium and the multi-genre cultural center Cooltour.
Since 2013 that he is the President of the Jury of the International Outdoor Film Festival, an itinerant event covering over 40 cities in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Russia.
He is also an avid InterRail traveler, authoring 4 guidebooks in the subject and also directed the documentary "40 years on track - the InterRail pass story".

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