2019
Tonight the World draws from a cross-section of dream diaries kept by Martin’s grandmother, Susi Stiassni, who fled the imminent Nazi occupation of Czechoslavakia in 1938. Through five chapters, the film links as many dreams sited in Susi’s childhood home, Villa Stiassni, a modernist mansion built by Susi’s parents, who were prominent Jewish textile manufacturers in the industrial hub of Brno. Conjured in Susi’s imagination from her middle-age onwards, in the context of psychoanalysis, the dream diaries as a whole span 40 years and 40,000 dreams, but Martin’s selection focuses tightly on dreams about intruders within the Villa, recreating a narrative of threat and escape that parallels Susi’s lived experience. Retracing the legacy of her grandmother’s emotional history, Martin considers the unconscious underpinnings of intergenerational trauma, loss and resilience.
Cast
Hayley Carmichael
Lynn Farleigh
Bowie Lucca
Flora Nicholson
Crew
Producer
Laura Shacham
Production Company
SheMakes
in association with Gnomon Production s.r.o
Performance Director
Joseph Alford
Director of Photography
Alexander Surkala
Art Director
Billur Turan
Editor
Guy Ducker
Composer
Zeena Parkins
Sound Designer
Daniel Jaramillo
Script
Daria Martin
based on Susi Stiassni’s dream diaries
Script Editor
Ewa J Lind
Script Consultant
Nick Gill
1st Assistant Director
Jan Menšík
Production Manager
Jan Hubacek
Production Assistants
Petr Kačírek
Zdeňka Kujová
Karoline Wunschová
Bea Cartwright
Kristýna Rudolfová
Dana Rybníkářová
Stand-by DoP
Radek Loukota
1st Assistant Camera
Marek Schnierer
2nd Assistant Camera
Jan Skrečka
Grip
Pavel Proisel
Grip Assistant
Marek Novoměstský
Gaffer
Vaclav Cermak
Electricians
Zdenek Vodvarka
Roman Tomana
Sound recordist
Klára Jašková
Boom operator
Pavel Vrtěl
Head of Props & Costume
Martina Zwyrtek
Costume assistants
Karolína Srpková
Lucas Trattou
Tailors
Zafer Çelebi
Handan Turan
Prop assistant
Sebastian Frei
Make up artist
Lenka Ngombele
Make up assistant
Nicole Dytrychová
Video Playback
Vladimir Polidar
Lock up manager
Ondřej Klus
Lock up assistant
David Javorský
Set builders
Michal Nový
Michal Procházka
Set building assistants
Petr Hlaváček
Stanislav Šmíd
Casting
Joseph Alford
Child casting
Emily Jones
Set photographer
Anna Leader
Transport
Martin Chlup
Vladimir Polidar
Ondřej Hrejsemnou
Pavel Auzký
Petr Novák
Stunts
Czech Stunts
Catering
Cool Catering
Audio Post Production
SoundNode Ltd
Dubbing Mixers
Daniel Jaramillo G.
David Crane
Sound Designers/Editors
Daniel Jaramillo G.
David Crane
Johan Winstedt
Additional percussion
Willie Wynat
Colourist
Vic Parker
“Madama Butterfly”
sung by Toti Dal Monte
Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, 1939
“Un Bel Di”
sung by Miriam Gauci
Performed by the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Licensed by Naxos Music
Translations
Martin Brňovják
Jana Garnsworthy
Chevrolet 1979
Care of Luděk Lefnar
Filmed on location
in Brno, Czech Republic at the Villa Stiassni
with thanks to
Kateřina Konečná
Petr Svoboda
Pavlína Petrová
The Heritage Institute of the Czech Republic
Special thanks
The Martin family
Maureen Paley
Lucy Reynolds
Emily Troscianko
Oliver Evans
Lydia Matthews
The Ruskin School of Art
Ivana Košuličová
Tony Grisoni
Czech Television
Clelia Gwynne-Evans
Rupert Emery
Hotel International, Brno
Vantage Camera
Enzo Lighting
UPP Prague
Film 1635
Atelier Bonton Zlin
Development
Naomi Frederick
Jane Thorne
Theatre O
Carolina Valdes
Mary Bosworth
Louise Braddock
Marie Bridge
Rodolfo Maggio
Zoe Waxman
Funded by
The Barbican
San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum
South Moravian Film Endowment Fund, Czech Republic
University of Oxford
St John’s College, Oxford