KARLOS

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM
DIRECTED BY: MIKE SAMIR AND ŠIMON ŠAFRÁNEK
PRODUCED BY MARTINA ŠTRUNC (Silk Films) & MATĚJ CHLUPÁČEK (Barletta Productions) & ONDŘEJ KULHÁNEK  (Barletta Productions)
DISTRIBUTED BY BONTONFILM DISTRIBUTION
2024

Karel Vémola is an enigma waiting to be cracked. On one side, we have a prolific MMA fighter who became the first ever Czech to join the world famous UFC. On the other, we have a tabloid monster featuring on covers of glossy magazines with his glamour model girlfriend. He owns a 90s style villa called Vemoland which is being guarded by two sculptured and one real lion. Inside, he pets an alligator as well as a couple of sharks. He is friends with the most controversial businessmen around yet he is invited for the annual presidential reception at the Prague castle. He is an athlete and a cage-fighting beast but he is also a father of three, son and a brother to a man he refuses to speak to. This is a portrait of an extreme human being on the backdrop of an extreme era.