
Batalives
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.
Batalives
April 5, 2018
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Cast (1)

Martin Siničák
Commentary (voice)
Crew (13)
Directing

Petr Babinec
Director

Karolína Zalabáková
Director
Writing

Lukáš Gargulák
Story

Martina Šantavá
Creative Producer

Petr Babinec
Screenplay

Ondřej Merta
Story

Karolína Zalabáková
Screenplay

Karolína Zalabáková
Story
Production

Lukáš Gargulák
Producer

Karolína Zalabáková
Producer
Sound

Tomáš Háček
Music
Art
No data availableCamera

Lukáš Gargulák
Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up
No data availableCrew
No data availableEditing

Libor Nemeškal
Editor