>>>THE HOUSE (Slovakia)
We have to leave to be able to return to ourselves.
The story of “the House“ focuses on the conflict between two generations of family members living in Slovakia in the period of dramatic political, economic and social changes. It is the conflict of maturing Eva (18) on the one side and her parents on the other. The family is living in a village located in the neighborhood of a distric town somewhere in central Slovakia. The parents have experience with living in comunism. Their own family house was the only certainty they had, it was the only place where they could have felt free. Therefore, it is difficult for them to understand all the changes and new possibilities their children have.
Each character of this story has to pass through a painful change. The methaphor of the missed mutual expectations, loosing love in the family relationships and generation gap is expressed through the house, which the father builds for his daughters Eva and Jana.
Eva is a bit introvert and sensitive young girl, who lives in an everyday routine. Her daily program consists of the boring hours spent at the school, some free time activities controlled by her parents and forced visits of the church where she has to play the organ. She dreams to escape to England as an au-pair. She is fed up with the father, who puts all his energy in the building of the house. Due to his religious orientation he was not allowed to become an architect, so his life is full of disapointments. Moreover, by getting older, he is afraid of being left alone. He tries to keep the family together. There is another reason why he protects Eva from every possible danger – bad experience with the older daughter Jana, who got married in a very young age.
Eva used to rebel against the father by dating her English teacher Jacob, who was, however, already married. After Jacob broke the relationship with her, she has to return home. Only this experience, full of bitterness and disappointment, allows her to become an adult and to understand her father’s behavior. Finally she recognizes for the father the house is the only way to express his love to his daughters.
Zuzana Liová
Born: 7th of October 1977
For the past two years she has been a member of scriptwriters' team of TV series:
Between us (production company Maya s.r.o). In 2003 - 2004 she worked in the Slovak Television as the regional broadcasting Bratislava dramaturgist, reporter, preparing weekly live broadcasting from regions and daily regional news. In the years 2001 - 2003 she worked as and editor, dramaturgist, and copywriter, and was involved in promotion of broadcasting in Slovak television.
Education:
| from 2004 |
postgraduate student of scriptwriting and dramaturgy at Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava |
| 1996 – 2001 |
Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava – Film and Television Faculty: Department of Scriptwriting and dramaturgy |
Filmography:
| The Silence 2005 |
(tv feature) - director and scriptwriter (Awards: Annual Awards of Literary Fund, Slovak Film Union and Union of Slovak Television Workers – IGRIC 2005: Premium for the director of debut /Zuzana Liová/; 46. International Film Festival for Children and Youth Zlín 2006: The Award of Minister of Culture of Czech Republic for the Best feature film of the Visegrad countries – film: The Silence; 36. Lubuskie Film Summer – Lagów 2006: Silver Grape ex aequo for Zuzana Liová for The Silence) |
| Paľko 2003 |
(documentary movie in the weekly cycle: In the shadow)- writer, director (award: First Prize in the Slovak Press competition called "To be with mother and father is the best" in the category: Television) |
| Miss Maria 2000 |
(student documentary) – writer, director (award: Prize of Literature Fund - Festival Áčko, Student film festival of Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in Bratislava) |
Scriptwriting:
| 2003 |
script for feature film: The House / Dom/ (award: Artscript – The Prize of Tibor Vichta (Slovaka national scriptwriting competition) - First Prize in the category: Fiction feature script, participation on long-term Media training Nipkow Programm Berlin and workshop Pilots in Sitges – Spain, 2005 – Hartley Merrill Prize – National Winner 2005) |
| 2001 |
script for feature film: The Silence / Ticho / - it is graduate's script at Film and TV faculty, in 2OO5 it was shot in Slovak Television |
