Czechoslovak film of the 1960s

The seminars will focus on the shape of Czechoslovak film in the 1960s, with an emphasis on the collaboration between filmmakers and writers. Attention will be paid to the basic tendencies in our cinema of the time, including the naming of key relationships to the most important foreign film artists. The primary focus will be on Czech and Slovak film production resulting from the collaboration of filmmakers with writers or as adaptations-filmic interpretations of literary works. The synthetic concept will focus on directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, composers, actors, poster designers, etc.

Each participant will receive an email 3-5 days before the start of the course with all important information.

Topics:

The condition of our cinema in the 1950s and 1960s

Creative groups in the 1960s Czechoslovak cinema

Italian neo-realism in film and its reflection in the 1960s Czechoslovakia (Visconti, Rossellini, De Sica, De Santis, Lattuada, Zampa, Rosi, Fellini, Antonioni, screenwriters and writers Moravia, Zavattini, Amidei)

The topic of the country and collectivisation (Procházka, Kantůrková - Kachyňa, Novák, Sirový, Jasný)

Pictures of WWII (Lustig, Grosman, Fuks, Mňačko, Körner - Brynych, Němec, Moskalyk, Herz, Kadár, Klos, Vláčil)

Thematising the manifestations of the 1950s totality (Procházka, Hrabal, Kundera, Kantůrková - Kachyňa, Menzel, Jireš, Sirový)

Films using history and based on historical fiction (Vančura, Körner, Kaplický - Vláčil, Vávra)

Humour as a way to express the emptiness of human existence and its absurdity (Blažek, Michal, Verner, Kundera - Podskalský, Filip, Kachlík, Forman, Papoušek)

Series (Neff, Marek, Foglar - Sequens, Filip, Bočan)

Major directors of photography in film (Ondříček, Šofr, Čuřík, Milota, Szomolányi, Uldrich), film music composers (Liška, Srnka), visual artists creating posters (Vaca, Ziegler, Rotrekl, Vyleťal, Grigar)

Comparison of selected films, scripts and fiction the films were based on (Spalovač mrtvol, Já truchlivý bůh, Žert, Skřivánci na niti, Ostře sledované vlaky, Údolí včel, Kočár do Vídně, Modlitba pro Kateřinu Horovitzovou, Dita Saxová, Obchod na korze, Marketa Lazarová, Ďáblova past, První den mého syna, Zelené obzory etc.)

Mgr. Monika HOSNEDLOVÁ
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