Section: Retrospective

DĚJINY NA OSM

HISTORY OF EIGHT

Václav Táborský

Czechoslovakia, 1968, 12 Min

Národní filmový archiv

The digit “8” figures conspicuously in fateful dates in Czech history. 1618 – the Defenestration of Prague; 1918 – the founding of the new state of Czechoslovakia, 1938 – the signing of the Munich Agreement. “So what,” this documentary of 1968 asks passers-by, “does this year’s ‘8’ hold in store?”

Filmformat
35mm | s/w / b/w

Drehbuch
Václav Táborský

Kamera
Vlček František

Ton
Benjamin Astrug

Schnitt
Marie Křížková

Darsteller
Miloš Kopecký

Produzent
Jaromír Kallista

Produktion
Krátký Film Praha

Kontakt
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Václav Táborský - born 1928 in Prague. Studied at FAMU, Prague. He pursued the cause of heightened authenticity for Czech documentary film in the 1960s, then after the crushing of the Prague Spring emigrated to Canada, where he works as a film journalist and professor.

Movies
ZABLÁCENÉ MĚSTO (1963, short, doc)
UTEK DO VETRU (1965, short)
NÁPADY CTENÁRE DETEKTIVEK (1966, short)
ZÁZRACNY HLAVOLAM (1967)

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