Karel Vachek’s graduate film offers us a documentary essay which is both a light-hearted and aggressive little piece and also a parody of investigative film journalism. The Strážnice folk festival, backed by the cultural Party apparatus of the time, for years had little to commend itself to authentic folklore. In the film the event assumes the form of a bizarre stage spectacle with almost surrealistic elements that Vachek reinforces with unconventional approaches (commentary appearing as titles on screen, singing, declamations into the camera, feature etudes, the fusion of news coverage and fiction). The result is a stirring film collage depicting various characters, from crowd-pleasers, Easter egg decorators, kitsch artists and peddlers, to museologists and local residents, all of whom come up against the eccentric "identical” twin reporters Karel and Jan Saudek and a bored actress who appears as an extra. Using their special blend of irony and wit, they present us with the sad truth.
First Blood
Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
7.5
My Spy The Eternal City
Action, Comedy, Family
6.6
Scarface
Action, Crime, Drama
8.2
From Russia with Love
Action, Thriller, Adventure
7.1
Gladiator II
Action, Adventure, Drama
6.7
Rocky II
Drama
7.3
Cinema Paradiso
Drama, Romance
8.4
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
7.5
Panda! Go Panda!
Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
7.7
Boys Don't Cry
Comedy, Crime, Action
7.4
Ash
Horror, Science Fiction
5.2
Kinds of Kindness
Drama, Comedy
6.5
Rocky V
Drama
5.8
Into the Wild
Adventure, Drama
7.8
The Godfather Part II
Drama, Crime
8.6
12
Romance, Drama
5.9
The Illusionist
Fantasy, Drama, Thriller, Romance
7.3
Mad Max: Fury Road
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
7.6
Abigail
Horror, Thriller
6.7
Shrek the Third
Fantasy, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
6.3
Valašské tance
Documentary
0.0
Ultimate Scandinavia
Documentary
7.0
My Dad and the Volcano
Documentary, Comedy
0.0
CERN, or The Factory for the Absolute
Documentary
0.0
Tangled Roots
Documentary
0.0
ELFilm
Comedy, Romance, Documentary
0.0
A Box of Film
Documentary
0.0
77777
Documentary
0.0
Mi Vida Me Pasa
Documentary, Music
0.0
Litanie
Documentary
0.0
Alternativ Festival 1975
Documentary, Music, Comedy
0.0
Ľudia a telefon
Documentary
0.0
Taurophilia
Documentary
4.5
Sonder: Stories on Campus
Documentary
0.0
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Music, Documentary
8.1
Wise Guys 2
Comedy, Documentary, Drama
10.0
Bugman
Horror, Drama, Fantasy, Documentary
0.0
Portrait of Food
Documentary
0.0
Learning
Documentary
0.0
When I Grow Up
Animation, Documentary
0.0