LEGENDA O LIETAJÚCOM CYPRIÁNOVI - LEGEND OF FLYING CYPRIAN

by Mariana Cengel Solcanská
108’, Slovacchia, 2010
Italian premiere
An ancient legend narrates that a long time ago, a mysterious monk, inventor, doctor and herbalist, master of the sciences and a thousand crafts, lived in a monastery in the mountains. His name was Cyprian. The people said that he had built a flying machine and that with it, one day, he had flown up to God. Cyprian really did live in the eighteenth century in the Red Monastery, in the Slovenian mountains. There the Camaldolese monks lived their tranquil, repetitive lives, forgetting that the world outside their monastery was changing. One rainy day they found a half-dead man at their gate. They took care of him and he decided to remain. They called him Cyprian. But who was this mysterious man, with bloodied hands and a dark past, full of love and death? And who led him to a place where sins are redeemed by miracles?

	Mariana Cengel Solcanská Mariana Cengel Solcanská was born in Nitra in 1978. After studying political science at Charles University in Prague and at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, she began studying film and television directing at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava. She has directed many short and medium-length films and has won numerous international prizes.