13.11.2008
Bathory on a festival in Spanisch Sevilla

The newest film by Juraj Jakubisko, which was for the first time introduced to international audience inSeptember of this year at International festival of Fantastic Film in Swedish Lund, continues with otherpresentations – this time in Spanish Sevilla.

A Festival of European films – Festival de CINE EUROPEO DE SEVILLA is in period from 7th till 15th of November 2008.

The screening of Bathory will be at 13th, 14th and 15th of November 2008. BATHORY will compete in a section of films, which were co-produced by Council of Europe – Eurimages. Sevenfilms of European co-production (e.g. Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Czech) will be presented in this section. On behalf of Czech republic Karamazovi will compete as a Czech and Polisch co-production. A 140 films areattending the festival.

The first presentation of BATHORY will be on Nov. 13 at 10pm, a short presentation will be before the projectionalong with participation of the director Juraj Jakubisko and his wife, producer of the film Deana Jakubiskova-Horvathova. A press conference will proceed on 14th of November followed by a presentation of the film to press. The film will close a new section fo the fesftival named „Midnight Cinema: Terror of Europe“ on the same day at 11pm.

BATHORY has become the most succesful film of all times in Slovakia and a film of the year of 2008 in Czechrepublic. Already after two months from release, the film have reached a magical frontier of a million film-goers atthe begining of September. Their interest is still growing and the screening of the film was many times prolonged inmany cinemas.