---
title: 'Charlatan (2020)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Agnieszka Holland'
released: '2020-08-20'
runtime_minutes: 118
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Slovakia'
  - 'Czech Republic'
  - 'Poland'
  - 'Ireland'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/charlatan-2020'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6028620/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Charlatan (2020)

2020 · 118 min · Drama, History · Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Ireland

Original title: Šarlatán

## Synopsis

Charlatan is a 2020 biographical historical drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland and written by Marek Epstein, loosely based on the healer Jan Mikolášek (1889–1973), who cured hundreds of people using plant-based remedies. It was selected as the Czech entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards making the February shortlist. It won five awards including Best Film at the 2021 Czech Lion Awards.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Agnieszka Holland](https://cinepixo.com/people/agnieszka-holland)
- **Screenplay:** [Marek Epstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/marek-epstein)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Antoni Łazarkiewicz](https://cinepixo.com/people/antoni-azarkiewicz)
- **Producer:** [Šárka Cimbalová](https://cinepixo.com/people/sarka-cimbalova), [Kevan Van Thompson](https://cinepixo.com/people/kevan-van-thompson)
- **Director of Photography:** [Martin Strba](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-strba)
- **Editor:** [Pavel Hrdlička](https://cinepixo.com/people/pavel-hrdlicka)

## Cast

- [Pavel Svatoň](https://cinepixo.com/people/pavel-svaton)
- [Natálie Drabiščáková](https://cinepixo.com/people/natalie-drabiscakova)
- [Oldřich Hajlich](https://cinepixo.com/people/oldrich-hajlich)
- [Jana Oľhová](https://cinepixo.com/people/jana-olhova)
- [Pavel Bezděk](https://cinepixo.com/people/pavel-bezdek)
- [Martin Šulc](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-sulc)
- [Juraj Loj](https://cinepixo.com/people/juraj-loj)
- [Jana Kvantiková](https://cinepixo.com/people/jana-kvantikova)
- [Barbora Milotová](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbora-milotova)
- [Aleš Týbl](https://cinepixo.com/people/ales-tybl)
- [Jan Budař](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-budar)
- [Tomáš Kořének](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomas-korenek)
- [Jiří Černý](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-cerny)
- [Matěj Preisler](https://cinepixo.com/people/matej-preisler)
- [Jiří Rendl](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-rendl)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/charlatan-2020
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