THE GOOD DEATH

The Sun in a Net 2020 for Best Documentary. Slovak National Film Awards granted by Slovak Film and Television Academy. 

IGRIC 2020 for Best Documentary. The oldest Slovak national film and television award. 

Slovak Film Critics Awards 2020 for Best Documentary released in Slovak cinemas in 2019. 

Janette is terminally ill and wants to die in a dignified way but British laws do not allow it. She gets in touch with Dr. Erika in Switzerland, who is willing to help her. Muscular dystrophy, the illness that Janette suffers from, has affected her family for generations. Janette must plan her journey to Switzerland before her rapidly advancing disease makes it impossible. With inner peace Janette organizes her departure while her loved ones go through an emotional storm. Her son Simon has also inherited this illness and, therefore, has much more sympathy regarding her decision than his sister Bridget. The relationship drama escalates as death comes closer. 

2019/ SK-FR-DE-CZ-AT/ 4K Digital, lenght: 83 min (alternative: 52 min.) 

Screening copy: DCP, Apple ProRes

Produced & Directed by: Tomáš Krupa

Co-produced by: MasterFilm (CZ), Golden Girls Film (AT), Radio and Television Slovakia - RTVS (SK), ARTE G.E.I.E. (FR), Czech Television (CZ) 

Executive Producer: Henrieta Cvangová 

Script: Tomáš Krupa, Lukáš Hanulák 

DOP: Ondřej Szollos

Additional Cinematograpy: Martin Čech, Ivo Miko

Editor: Peter Kudlička 

Sound design: Miloš Hanzély 

Excutive Producer: Henrieta Cvangová

Cast: Janette Butlin, Simon Convey, Bridget Convey, Erika Preisig 

Language: English 

Distribution premiere in Slovakia: 21st March 2019 

Distribution premiere in Czech Republic: 17th October 2019

Distribution SK: Continental Film 

Distributio CZ: Falcon

Supported by Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Czech Film Fund