Ucho
THE Ear
Remarkable for its candour and attention to detail, the film illustrates how the Czechoslovak State Security agency operated. The combination of haunting black and white imagery and suggestive soundtrack revive the then atmosphere of uncertainty and fear of the arbitrary use of state power, a threat no one was to immune to during the era of Stalinism. UCHO was a work that scared the powers that be of the time perhaps more than any other, and was immediately withheld from circulation upon completion in 1970. The film first featured on international cinema screens at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. CF
35 mm | s/w / b/w
Jan Procházka, Karel Kachyňa
Josef Illík
Svatopluk Havelka
Ladislav Winkelhofer
Svatopluk Havelka
Jiřina Bohdalová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jiří Císler, Miroslav Holub
Národní filmový archiv
Kristýna Haklová
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Karel Kachyňa - born 1924 in Vyškov, Czech Republic, died 2004 in Prague. He was one of the first graduates from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts(FAMU) in Prague.He was part of the Czech wave of liberal filmmakers in the 1960s which included Miloš Forman and Jiří Menzel. In 1964, Vysoká zeď was awarded Best Debut Feature.
VYSOKÁ ZEĎ (1964)
KOČÁR DO VÍDNĚ (1966)
PAVLÍNKA (1974)
MALÁ MOŘSKÁ VÍLA (1976)
SMRT KRÁSNÝCH SRNCŮ (1986)
KRÁVA (1994)
HANELE (1999)