Batalives

Batalives

2018
4.0

4.0/10

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Documentary
Overview

In the 1920s, Tomas Baťa and his stepbrother Jan Antonín Baťa, entrepreneurs from Zlin, Czechoslovakia, began establishing new cities worldwide to expand their business. Over the next decades, about fifty towns were built on their unique social and architectural model, but only a few remain today. Our film explores the lives of people in these surviving “Bata cities”: Zlín in the Czech Republic, Bata-Borovo in Croatia, Batanagar in India, Bataypora in Brazil, and Batadorp in the Netherlands. Characters like Matea, Shona, Bé, Henrik, and Věra, despite their differences, are linked by their shared history. The film questions how the vision of a brilliant business dreamer has evolved nearly 100 years later.

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Status: Released

Language: CS

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Production Information

Production Companies
Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně Česká televize
Production Countries
Czech Republic
Spoken Languages
Czech

Keywords

company town

Quick Facts

Original Title Batalives: Baťovské životy
Release Date April 5, 2018
Status Released
Language CS
IMDb ID tt7431044

Cast

Martin Siničák
Martin Siničák

Commentary (voice)

Key Crew

Lukáš Gargulák
Producer
Petr Babinec
Screenplay
Karolína Zalabáková
Producer
Petr Babinec
Director
Karolína Zalabáková
Director
Karolína Zalabáková
Screenplay