“Alois Nebel” chosen to vie for Oscar nomination

The Czech Film and Television Academy has selected the animated feature film Alois Nebel as the Czech candidate for the foreign film category of the Academy Awards next year. The black and white film, which uses a unique animating technology called "rotoscoping", is based on a cult cartoon novel written by Jaroslav Rudis and Jaromir 99. It is set at an out-of-the way railway station in the mountains near the Polish border in the 1980s. The film was successfully presented at the prestigious International Film Festival in Venice a couple of weeks ago, will have its Czech premiere on September 29.