Slovak director Robert Kirchhoff is in postproduction with his documentary “All Men Become Brothers,” which follows the life of Czechoslovak politician Alexander Dubček (1921-1992), Film New Europe reports.
Dubček was leader of Czechoslovakia from January 1968 to April 1969. He attempted to reform the communist government during the Prague Spring, but was forced to resign following the Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968.
The film is produced by Kirchhoff’s Atelier.doc and coproduced by Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech Republic’s Endorfilm and Czech Television.
Kirchhoff’s past titles include “Normalization,” which received a Special Mention from the Between the Seas jury at Jihlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival.
Production took place from 2018 to 2021 on locations in Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Turkey and Slovakia. Well-known figures from Czechoslovak and international politics and culture, such as Italian politician Romano Prodi, Italian novelist Umberto Eco, Czech novelist and playwright Pavel Kohout, and Czech director...
Dubček was leader of Czechoslovakia from January 1968 to April 1969. He attempted to reform the communist government during the Prague Spring, but was forced to resign following the Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968.
The film is produced by Kirchhoff’s Atelier.doc and coproduced by Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech Republic’s Endorfilm and Czech Television.
Kirchhoff’s past titles include “Normalization,” which received a Special Mention from the Between the Seas jury at Jihlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival.
Production took place from 2018 to 2021 on locations in Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Turkey and Slovakia. Well-known figures from Czechoslovak and international politics and culture, such as Italian politician Romano Prodi, Italian novelist Umberto Eco, Czech novelist and playwright Pavel Kohout, and Czech director...
- 7/10/2022
- by Zuzana Točíková Vojteková
- Variety Film + TV
Milan Kundera’s first novel, “The Joke,” won him critical praise and set the tone for a robust career in the spring of 1967, debuting just in time to catch the rising tide of freedom of expression that would reach its peak with the Prague Spring movement just a year later. Jaromil Jires crafted a screen adaptation of the book, in collaboration with the writer, which became one of the iconic films of the Czech New Wave.
The digital restoration of the film, part of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s program of preserving and promoting classic films, alongside the Czech National Film Archive, brings a crisp new copy of the film to audiences this summer. The chance to experience “The Joke” in a pristine state after extensive work by Prague post house Upp and studio Soundsquare has been a long-time coming.
When the Soviet crackdown, known as Normalization, rolled into...
The digital restoration of the film, part of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s program of preserving and promoting classic films, alongside the Czech National Film Archive, brings a crisp new copy of the film to audiences this summer. The chance to experience “The Joke” in a pristine state after extensive work by Prague post house Upp and studio Soundsquare has been a long-time coming.
When the Soviet crackdown, known as Normalization, rolled into...
- 7/2/2022
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Czech director Martin Kohout will turn his focus to the housing crisis, Variety has learned, developing a new film under the working title “Growth of the City.”
“No city is able to solve the housing crisis without building new apartments, so they just become bigger and bigger – it’s an endless process. This idea of never-ending growth is something I would like to explore, because it also has to do with climate change. Instead of focusing on the problem, we are just doing more,” he says.
Kohout, born in 1984, was only 5 years old when the Velvet Revolution took former Czechoslovakia by storm, ending the rule of the Communist Party. In “Points for the President aka Attempt at Counterrevolution,” world premiering at Ji.hlava Intl. Film Festival, he returns to that time once again, trying to figure out what went wrong.
“I was there; I was waving the flag. For my generation,...
“No city is able to solve the housing crisis without building new apartments, so they just become bigger and bigger – it’s an endless process. This idea of never-ending growth is something I would like to explore, because it also has to do with climate change. Instead of focusing on the problem, we are just doing more,” he says.
Kohout, born in 1984, was only 5 years old when the Velvet Revolution took former Czechoslovakia by storm, ending the rule of the Communist Party. In “Points for the President aka Attempt at Counterrevolution,” world premiering at Ji.hlava Intl. Film Festival, he returns to that time once again, trying to figure out what went wrong.
“I was there; I was waving the flag. For my generation,...
- 10/29/2021
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Above: The Long RoadIf there is anything to be learned from film history, it might be how fragile history really is, how easily it is changed, erased and can be constructed to disempower. Fragility in relation to history, memory, and time is one of the main reoccurring themes within the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s program “The Tyger Burns.” By curating a program that only featured new work of filmmakers who were already active by the time the Rotterdam festival started in the 1970s, Iffr programmer Gerwin Tamsma and guest programmer Olaf Möller brought an exceptional ode to the figure and the gaze of the old director this year. The importance of a program such as “The Tyger Burns” cannot be easily overestimated within our current festival climate and it makes quite a radical and necessary statement. Our contemporary film and festival industry is predominantly preoccupied with discovering and cherishing youth.
- 2/18/2020
- MUBI
The last remaining active director of the Czech New Wave, Karel Vachek, has finished the longest-ever Czech film, which clocks in at six hours. One of the most original Czechs, the last remaining active director of the Czech New Wave and a former head of Famu’s Documentary department, Karel Vachek, has a new oeuvre travelling the festival circuit. Following his previous efforts, Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk Under the Influence of Griffith’s Intolerance and Tati’s Mr. Hulot’s Holidays or the Foundation and Doom of Czechoslovakia (1918-1992) from 2006 (147 minutes long) and Obscurantist and His Lineage or the Pyramids’ Tearful Valleys, he has made yet another of his film-novels, Communism and the Net or the End of Representative Democracy, which clocks in at 335 minutes (split into four acts). The cinematic essay explores politics, philosophy, religion and art. Fifty years since the Prague Spring and 30 years...
From Cineuropa.org by Tina Poglajen
The Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (October 24–29, 2017) is the largest event of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe. The festival retains a distinctive and progressive programming approach and has built a remarkable Industry section, featuring projects such as Emerging Producers and Inspiration Forum. The festival is also famous for its informal atmosphere, discussion character and full screening venues.
On 26 October, the flagship industry project of the Ji.hlava Idff publicly presented 18 talented producers from 16 European countries plus Morocco.
Bringing together talented European documentary film producers, Emerging Producers, the promotional and educational project of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, is becoming more highly acclaimed and well known each year. In its six years of existence, it has enrolled over 100 alumni, many of whom have subsequently become successful producers.
Divided into three main parts — promotion, networking and navigation — the aim of the...
The Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (October 24–29, 2017) is the largest event of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe. The festival retains a distinctive and progressive programming approach and has built a remarkable Industry section, featuring projects such as Emerging Producers and Inspiration Forum. The festival is also famous for its informal atmosphere, discussion character and full screening venues.
On 26 October, the flagship industry project of the Ji.hlava Idff publicly presented 18 talented producers from 16 European countries plus Morocco.
Bringing together talented European documentary film producers, Emerging Producers, the promotional and educational project of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, is becoming more highly acclaimed and well known each year. In its six years of existence, it has enrolled over 100 alumni, many of whom have subsequently become successful producers.
Divided into three main parts — promotion, networking and navigation — the aim of the...
- 10/27/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
For 351 days of the year the average age of Karlovy Vary’s tourists could be conservatively estimated at 60. The tiny resort town (a two hour bus ride from Prague) is famous for its hot springs and spas and host to predominantly Russian, Israeli and German pensioners who come to imbibe the town’s waters which play doctor to various digestive ailments. So it comes as a surprise when for nine days at the beginning of each July, as if struck by the magic power of its own waters, Karlovy Vary rejuvenates itself, becoming a cinephilic playground, the average age dropping to 20. Journalists, filmmakers, and industry professionals aside, nearly everyone else is a student. They descend from different parts of the country to camp out (in parks, at nearby schools), forming a Bedouin village of cinephiles.
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is a winery in which the aged wines and...
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is a winery in which the aged wines and...
- 8/7/2010
- MUBI
Cologne, Germany -- The Karlovy Vary international film festival (July 2-10) is using its 45th anniversary to toast experimental Czech documentarian Karel Vachek with a complete retrospective of his work.
Vachek's political/philosophical documentaries -- from his debut "Moravian Hellas" (1963) to "Zavis, the Prince of Pornofolk" (2006) -- have pushed the boundaries of the form, combining cinema verite with staged scenes and combining politics, humor and philosophical discussions. As a professor in the documentary department at Prague's Film Academy, Vachek has also groomed a new generation of Czech filmmakers.
Vachek, who turns 70 this year, will attend Karlovy Vary, where he will hold a master class together with producer Radim Prochazka and discuss his upcoming doc "Obscurantist and His Lineage."...
Vachek's political/philosophical documentaries -- from his debut "Moravian Hellas" (1963) to "Zavis, the Prince of Pornofolk" (2006) -- have pushed the boundaries of the form, combining cinema verite with staged scenes and combining politics, humor and philosophical discussions. As a professor in the documentary department at Prague's Film Academy, Vachek has also groomed a new generation of Czech filmmakers.
Vachek, who turns 70 this year, will attend Karlovy Vary, where he will hold a master class together with producer Radim Prochazka and discuss his upcoming doc "Obscurantist and His Lineage."...
- 5/27/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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