音乐纪录片——东欧社会主义体制如何制作和发展音乐电影和音乐剧。往往被视为西方腐朽文化的歌舞片,其中的“视觉音乐”“身体语言”如何转化,为现行文艺路线所吸纳,以及随之而来产生的刺激点和禁忌。非常有意思的一个视角。
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East Side Story (1997)
"That's Entertainment!," Communist style. A documentary about movie musicals produced during the height of the old Soviet bloc. Comrades drive tractors, sweep factory floors, feed farm animals, harvest crops, all the while sing...
This staged documentary shot by Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skorzewski is presented in form of a documentary poster warning against indifference to repressive behaviour of hooligan gangs and their disastrous influence on the youth. Janek, the protagonist, is a boy who gets into a low company. Using tricks of action films, this film's might lies in its dynamic narration full of dr...
Andreicz, a man in his 50s suspects that his wife is cheating on him. He waits in the front of their house and wants to catch his spouse with her lover in the act. Suddenly he enters the apartment, approaches a young woman and after a while he realizes that it's the wrong floor. But then the unknown woman's old husband enters and Andreicz has to hide under the bed. To his amaze...
Poland and the Czech Republic. Relationship status Complicated, of course. On our part, there's a sense of superiority disguised as condescending fascination. On the other hand, ostentatious indifference. Sometimes, as in the case of the dispute over pollution emitted across the Czech border by the Polish Turów mine, minor disagreements escalate into serious diplomatic tension...