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.
A Boy Called Po
Fantasy, Drama
6.9
Stop-and-Cop Interactive
Action
8.5
Tel chi el telùn
Comedy
8.0
Woyzeck
Drama
6.6
Yojimbo
Drama, Thriller
8.1
Live and Let Die
Adventure, Action, Thriller
6.5
Madly in Love
Comedy
6.6
The Cosmos on the Commode
Comedy
5.2
L'Atalante
Romance, Drama, Comedy
7.5
Harvey
Comedy, Fantasy
7.7
The Last Metro
Drama, Romance, War
7.2
Eating Out: The Open Weekend
Comedy, Romance
5.6
Scarface
Crime, Drama
7.5
How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
Documentary
7.6
New York, New York
Romance, Drama, Music
6.6
Cesar and Rosalie
Romance, Drama
7.1
Female Urologists 3
Drama, Romance
5.5
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Horror
7.3
How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends
Comedy, Adventure, War
7.7
to boyhood, i never knew him
Documentary
0.0
As You Are
Documentary
10.0
Good Living
Documentary
0.0
A Box of Film
Documentary
0.0
One More Shot
Documentary
8.0
ELFilm
Comedy, Romance, Documentary
0.0
Best Before
Documentary, Animation
0.0
The Gordon Affair
Documentary, Drama
0.0
Mi Vida Me Pasa
Documentary, Music
0.0
Coronavirus
Documentary
0.0
Answer the Call
Documentary, Drama
0.0
Burning Man: Just Add Couches
Documentary
0.0
When I Grow Up
Animation, Documentary
0.0
An Ill-Fated Artist
Documentary, Music, Drama
6.0
Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man
Documentary
4.8
memory file 01
Documentary
5.0
Bo Hai
Documentary, Drama
7.3
AquaBurn
Documentary
7.0
Dust Devils
Documentary
7.0
100 Days
Documentary, Drama
0.0