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.
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012
Animation, Science Fiction, Music
6.3
The Evil Marriage
Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Animation
10.0
Father of Independence
Drama, History
5.8
WWE: RAW The Beginning - The Best Of Seasons 1 & 2
8.0
Moments: Six
Drama, Thriller
7.8
Look Out, Officer!
Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
6.1
Flow
Animation
8.7
Ranks and People
Comedy
5.4
Pennies
Thriller, Drama
7.0
Welcome, Violeta!
Thriller
7.2
The Banker's Daughters
Drama
4.5
Neznayka from our Yard
Fantasy, Comedy, Family
4.3
Lovely
Drama
10.0
Eroticise
8.0
Donten: Laughing Under the Clouds - Gaiden: Chapter 3 - Conspiracy of the Military
Action, Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
7.9
Young and Dangerous 4
Action, Crime, Thriller
6.3
Carmines
Drama
7.0
99 days
Documentary
0.0
Dust Devils
Documentary
7.0
AquaBurn
Documentary
7.0
Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man
Documentary
4.8
Cordobés 65
Documentary
7.0
Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
Documentary, Music
0.0
As You Are
Documentary
10.0
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Music, Documentary
8.2
Vianočný dar
Documentary
0.0
Bulgaria: Fire Dance Ritual
Documentary
0.0
A Box of Film
Documentary
0.0
Ode to liberty
Documentary
0.0
Bugman
Horror, Drama, Fantasy, Documentary
0.0
Wise Guys 2
Comedy, Documentary, Drama
10.0
The Gordon Affair
Documentary, Drama
0.0
A Culpa é do Sol
Documentary, Comedy
10.0
Mayor of Lowell
Adventure, Documentary, History, War
0.0
Taurophilia
Documentary
4.5
Burlesque
Documentary
10.0
África
Documentary
0.0