Contemporary society deals with the death in its own way. On the one hand, we admire it in computer games and pop culture films, on the other hand, society is pushing it out of real life. Dying is no longer a natural part of life, but rather a technical problem that science and doctors are trying to solve or even stop. For the main character of the documentary Vienna Calling, Ondřej Jajcaj, death is different. He is fascinated by it, he admires it. In the past, he has not been shy about stealing the teeth of Johann Strauss and Johannes Brahms. He made his living as a grave robber.
"Jajcaj's goal is to rid society of the fear of death. To do this, he embarks on a bizarre journey with a morbid mobile museum - a marquee of death, decorated with skulls, a collection of dental prosthetics and his paintings. With a handful of henchmen, Jajcaj and his traveling parade of bizarreness make their way across the countryside, confronting society with the phenomenon of death during feast time. The destination is Vienna, where Jajcaj plans to officially present the dental remains of Johann Strauss Jr. and Johannes Brahms to Austrian officials," the director says of the film.
The experimental documentary Vienna Calling presents one of the phenomena of our time - the fear of death. It's a subject so fundamental, the execution so bizarre and Jajcaj himself so eccentric that we thought it appropriate to support him on this journey through our distribution.