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Angelina Shestak, Vendy Vošmiková, Nykki, Tereza Haklová, Míša Exlová, Michal David, Karel Gott, Filip Renč, Dara Rolins, Monika Absolonová (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Nikola, Míša, Tereza, Vendy a Angie – five young girls, members of an artificially formed band called 5angels, whose ambition is to fill a hole on the Czech young pop music market. One agile manager. One hard-bitten producer. One musical. Many rehearsals. Many plans. We observe the band on the background of the preparations of a teen musical, written for 5angels by the popular Czech musician Michal David. We follow the stories of children, who, driven by the ambitions of their parents as well as their own, undergo the process of formation of the demanded product – pop icon. (Verleiher-Text)
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Eine niedlich abgefahrene Kuriosität.
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Find a good topic in a documentary and it (almost) works itself out. Bohdan Bláhovec serves you a portrait of a man whose business plan is certainly on the edge of ethics and definitely beyond the edge of good parental morals. The suffering of (not only) Czech show business is shown here in all its nakedness, which will be all the more annoying for you since it’s a bunch of girls at the start of puberty. If the director had made a second part with the caption "...ten years later," there can hardly be any doubt that his own daughter would hardly speak to Michal Mertl. Unless a miracle happens and 5Angels actually end up selling out Madison Square Garden. (This is highly doubtful because if such a person thinks that the documentary filmmakers at FAMU are going to turn out free self-PR, he has a lot to learn.)
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At the beginning, the dad controlling everything made me sick. His incredibly calculating nature was apparent with the business flowing through his hands. Later, I began to understand his actions a bit. After all, business is business. And I didn’t even feel he was so bad and arrogant. In any case, that girl did not deserve such a Spartan upbringing. Maybe it would be good for the dad to think about what she really wants and not about what she should say and what sponsors she should mention at concerts. This documentary nicely shows what capitalism is about. Hyenas who feed off their own children. Anyway, hats off to what the dad managed to do. It takes some real balls to rope Lou Fanánek Hagen and Michal David into such project. The informative value of the documentary as such is adequate. It independently enters the life of one extreme family and leaves it inconspicuously too. I have to say that’s more than enough. I haven’t seen a smile so fake in a while.
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Ein totaler Flop, der sogar in zwei verschiedenen Laufzeiten angeboten wurde. Und auch nach einem Jahrzehnt ist das Grauen noch nicht vorbei, Michal David hat das Musical zu einem neuen Film für 5Angels gemacht, Andílci za školou (2022). Andererseits hat Mertl seiner Tochter tatsächlich zu einer Solokarriere verholfen, die jetzt unter dem Namen Nykki auftritt.
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