Moravian Hellas

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Josef Lebánek

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Jan Saudek

Twin B

Age : 88 | Popularity : 3%

Kája Saudek

Twin A

Age : 80 | Popularity : 3%

Alena Skokanová

Age : 77 | Popularity : 7%

Jožka Severin

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Crew	Dramaturgy	Václav Borovička
Writing	Screenplay	Karel Vachek
	Story	Karel Vachek
Directing	Director	Karel Vachek
Camera	Director of Photography	Jozef Ort-Šnep
Sound	Music Director	Štěpán Koníček
	Sound	Benjamin Astrug Lubomír Zajíc
Editing	Editor	Ludvík Pavlíček
Production	Production Manager	Emil Havlín
Department	Role	Name

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