NOVINSKI s.r.o. is a music and film production company based in Bratislava, Slovakia. NOVINSKI has been established in 2005 by an acclaimed music producer and composer Michal Novinski. Since then, the company has produced music to numerous TV series, awarded fiction and documentary films and commercials home and abroad, i.a. Broken Promise (dir. Jiri Chlumsky), Kooky (dir. Jan Sverak) – Czech Lion Award for Best Original Score, In The Shadow (dir. David Ondricek) – Czech Lion Award for Best Original Score, Angels (dir. Alice Nellis), Three Brothers (dir. Jan Sverak), Wilsonov (dir. Tomas Masin), wave vs. shore (dir. Martin Strba) and many others.
NOVINSKI established a film production branch in 2014 after a young Polish producer, Danuta Krasnohorska, joined the company. NOVINSKI’s first co-production was a feature fiction film Three Brothers directed by Jan Sverak, which gathered over 700.000 viewers in Slovak and Czech cinemas. The soundtrack for the film becomes one of the best-selling CD in Czech Republic in 2014/2015.
Agata Jelenekova and Jana Brezinova joined the production team in 2017 and are working on new projects and coproductions which are coming soon.
The goal of NOVINSKI is to bring high-quality film projects of Central European film directors that can enrich Slovak cinema.
Barefoot on Stalks is a coming-of-age story of 8-yrs-old Eda, who is forced to leave Prague and spend war times in the countryside after his father rejects to affiliate with Nazi invadors of Czechoslovakia. The war provides mysterious adventures to Eda whose childish eyes can‘t percieve danger of difficult times. For him life feels strange but beautiful now – city boy lives in a tiny town, joins local boyish crew to spend days walking barefoot, notices beauty of girls for the first time and discovers both deep family secrets and his own bravery. Barefoot is a lyrical feature film about childhood and heroism.
You can find the DVD and Soundtrack in many bookstores around Slovakia.
OFFICIAL TRAILER | Po strinsku bosý / Po strništi bos rež. Jan Svěrák from Michal Novinski on Vimeo.
You can find the DVD, Audiobook and Soundtrack in many bookstores around Slovakia, or you can simply buy it.
Master class with an Oscar awarded Czech director Jan Svěrák made in the event of filming his new piece Barefoot On Stalks.