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.
Angelique and the Sultan
Adventure, Romance, History
6.4
Return of the Seven
Western
6.2
The Railway Children Return
Drama, Family, Adventure
6.6
Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Eternal
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
6.7
Returner
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
6.5
UFC 21: Return Of The Champions
6.6
The Way Back
6.8
The Return
Documentary, Action
6.6
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Action
6.6
Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1
Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
6.2
Best of Video Track 77 & 78
Documentary
1.0
Kimagure Orange Road: I Want to Return to That Day
Romance, Animation, Drama, Comedy
7.2
Life of a Mutt
Documentary
10.0
Main Krishna Hoon
Animation, Family
6.6
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Action, Horror
7.5
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
War, Drama
6.1
Return to Horror High
Horror, Comedy
5.2
I Want to Return Return Return
Documentary
6.7
Hry prachu
Documentary
0.0
Spirits and Rocks: An Azorean Myth
Documentary
0.0
Good Living
Documentary
0.0
Mi Vida Me Pasa
Documentary, Music
0.0
A Box of Film
Documentary
0.0
Answer the Call
Documentary, Drama
0.0
Best Before
Documentary, Animation
0.0
L'envol de Paloma
Adventure, Documentary, Animation
8.0
Coronavirus
Documentary
0.0
ELFilm
Comedy, Romance, Documentary
0.0
As You Are
Documentary
10.0
100 Days
Documentary, Drama
0.0
Dust Devils
Documentary
7.0
Sonder: Stories on Campus
Documentary
0.0
Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man
Documentary
4.8
Burning Man: Just Add Couches
Documentary
0.0
AquaBurn
Documentary
7.0
memory file 01
Documentary
5.0
An Ill-Fated Artist
Documentary, Music, Drama
6.0
One More Shot
Documentary
7.0