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Hermit Twins – and a Talking Cow – Share Life and Poetry in Miro Remo’s Karlovy Vary Winner ‘Better Go Mad in the Wild’
Miro Remo’s hybrid doc presented at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, ‘Better Go Mad in the Wild,’ shows hermit twins who share life and poetry.
They are descendants of Slovaks from Romania, who settled in the Šumava region after World War II, in areas vacated by Germans. “My father recommended a great book by Aleš Palán, also called ‘Better to Go Mad in the Wilderness,’ which includes several powerful stories about the Šumava hermits. They’ve evolved into an unusual form of existence with an extremely strong magical presence,” he says, which led him to move away from the confines of “classic and overused” social drama.
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