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
CERN, or The Factory for the Absolute
Documentary
0.0
Tangled Roots
Documentary
0.0
Honey Bunny Duracell
Documentary
0.0
Do Chile za zatměním Slunce
Documentary
0.0
Valašské tance
Documentary
0.0
77777
Documentary
0.0
Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
Documentary, Music
0.0
Hry prachu
Documentary
0.0
Alternativ Festival 1975
Documentary, Music, Comedy
0.0
Ľudia a telefon
Documentary
0.0
Mayor of Lowell
Adventure, Documentary, History, War
0.0
Taurophilia
Documentary
3.3
ELFilm
Comedy, Romance, Documentary
0.0
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
Music, Documentary
8.1
When I Grow Up
Animation, Documentary
0.0
Chaotic Wrestling: Behind the Birthplace of Stars
Documentary
0.0
My Computer
Documentary
0.0
100 Days
Documentary, Drama
0.0
The Cupid Chronicles
Romance, Comedy, TV Movie, Documentary
0.0
A Box of Film
Documentary
0.0