Czech New Wave Cinema – which peaked during the 1960s and early 1970s – offered a mosaic of sociopolitical commentary which blended the political and the personal with the surreal and the…
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The Firemen’s Ball (‘Hori ma panenko’, 1967) was Milos Forman’s first color and last Czech film. Why would a comedy about incompetent firefighters, belonging to a small provisional town, enrage the Communist…
Zbynek Brynych is one of the important yet lesser known film-makers of the Czech New Wave. His directorial debut, A Local Romance (1958) gained him international attention, screened at Cannes and nominated…
Karel Kachyna’s visually innovative The Ear (Ucho, 1970) offered a compelling look at life under the totalitarian rule. It was a blistering criticism on the climate of paranoia perpetuated by the ruthless…
“Larks on a String’s potent imagery retains hope even when the camera moves down into the bowels of hell.“ Czech film-maker Jiri Menzel, who often collaborated with and faithfully adapted the works…
“Loves of a Blonde may somehow fall under the romance and comedy genre, but it has nothing to do with that insipid and superficial signifier: rom-com.” The political-minded film-makers of Czech New…
