Creation | CONFESSION
Stories written by life itself
Czech Television – Telexport
Kavčí hory, 140 00 Prague 4
tel: 26 11 37 047
fax: 26 12 11 354
e-mail: telexport@czech-tv.cz
About this series:
This series of real-life stories, told by the people themselves, was shown by Czech Television from September 1999 until the beginning of summer in 2000.
From September to December 2003 this series then returned to our screens in an innovative form – whereas the previous parts did not use commentary, these nineteen new parts had this aspect, read in an interesting manner by the Czech pop star, Lucia Bílá.
Confession is based on the fact that only life itself can write such stories. Stories that could not have been written by any scriptwriter. This often concerns such exceptional fates and stories that they sometimes leave you at a loss or which you just cannot believe (adopted identical twins who first met after 50 years or a man who has only half a body etc.). For this reason, the heroes of the series were not only well-known people, but also those not in the media limelight until then. In this manner, a unique chronicle of strong human fates was created, in which our children will find a very open and sincere report about the time we lived in.
Despite the fact that individual parts elicited exceptional reception on the part of the viewer (e.g. Confession of a man who miraculously recovered from a tumour), the series initially paid the price for its non-periodical broadcast (3x monthly), later in its innovative form, with sensitive commentary by Lucia Bílá, its ever-increasing popularity was halted by cuts in production financing from CT.
Even though unplanned, confession also provided some of its heroes with the absolutely last chance for public appearance (e.g.: Confession of the dissident, Ladislav Lis, Confession of the actress, Helena Růžičková).
Most of the stories had such a strong charge, that they could easily be the pattern for a feature length film
Frequency:
weekly
Brodcast:
1999, 2000, 2003, 2004
Length:
14 minutes
First part:
“Confession of a man who was a woman until a few weeks ago” (directed by: Andrea Majstorovičová)
Last part:
“Confession of a burnt wife” (directed by: Dagmar Smržová)
Copyright:
Czech Television
Total parts:
58
Contact:Czech Television – Telexport
Kavčí hory, 140 00 Prague 4
tel: 26 11 37 047
fax: 26 12 11 354
e-mail: telexport@czech-tv.cz
About this series:
This series of real-life stories, told by the people themselves, was shown by Czech Television from September 1999 until the beginning of summer in 2000.
From September to December 2003 this series then returned to our screens in an innovative form – whereas the previous parts did not use commentary, these nineteen new parts had this aspect, read in an interesting manner by the Czech pop star, Lucia Bílá.
Confession is based on the fact that only life itself can write such stories. Stories that could not have been written by any scriptwriter. This often concerns such exceptional fates and stories that they sometimes leave you at a loss or which you just cannot believe (adopted identical twins who first met after 50 years or a man who has only half a body etc.). For this reason, the heroes of the series were not only well-known people, but also those not in the media limelight until then. In this manner, a unique chronicle of strong human fates was created, in which our children will find a very open and sincere report about the time we lived in.
Despite the fact that individual parts elicited exceptional reception on the part of the viewer (e.g. Confession of a man who miraculously recovered from a tumour), the series initially paid the price for its non-periodical broadcast (3x monthly), later in its innovative form, with sensitive commentary by Lucia Bílá, its ever-increasing popularity was halted by cuts in production financing from CT.
Even though unplanned, confession also provided some of its heroes with the absolutely last chance for public appearance (e.g.: Confession of the dissident, Ladislav Lis, Confession of the actress, Helena Růžičková).
Most of the stories had such a strong charge, that they could easily be the pattern for a feature length film