Long live the republic
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Long live the republic |
| Original title | Ať žije republika |
| Country of production | Czechoslovakia |
| original language | Czech |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 134 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karel Kachyňa |
| script | Karel Kachyňa, Jan Procházka |
| production | Film studios Barrandov |
| music | Jan Novák |
| camera | Jaromir Šofr |
| cut | Miroslav Hájek |
| occupation | |
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Long live the republic (title in the GDR: I, Julina and the end of the great war , original title: Ať žije republika ) is a Czechoslovak film drama in black and white from 1965 by Karel Kachyňa , who - together with Jan Procházka - also wrote the screenplay after whose youth book of the same name had written. Zdeněk Stiburek , Vlado Müller and Naděžda Gajerová can be seen in the leading roles . The work had its world premiere on November 5, 1965 in Czechoslovakia. In the Federal Republic of Germany it had its premiere on December 4, 1967 in the program of the Second German Television ( ZDF ).
action
Czechoslovakia towards the end of World War II : The film tells the experiences of a 12-year-old Bohemian village boy in the stormy time between the withdrawal of the German soldiers and the invasion of the Russian soldiers. There are insignificant events that take place here, but which nonetheless take on eerie proportions in the child's psyche. The teasing of peers or the harshness of the father, the tenderness of the mother and the friendship with an outsider, but above all the insincerity and cruelty of the adults, these are the things that make up the world of little Oldřich. One day the children of the village are sent to a hiding place with all their horse-drawn vehicles because there is a rumor that the horses are being confiscated by the German occupation. Deserters steal Oldřich's horse and beat the boy, who doesn't dare to go home without the precious property. Now he wanders around in no man's land and comes across Soviet soldiers, from whom he in turn tries to steal a replacement horse. He becomes friends with a Russian lieutenant whose death he will soon see but cannot understand.
When the war is over and Oldřich returns to his home village, the most decent inhabitant of the place is driven to his death as a “ collaborator ” by the angry crowd , and when he wants to return to his parents, he has to watch them see each other and are in the process of greedily searching the stolen property of refugee farmers.
Reviews
The Evangelical movie watchers moved to the German premiere in the program of the ZDF following conclusion: "The difficult task that often dubious in the last days of the war behavior is to be considered an adult with a child's eyes and expose according to both mentally and visually solved in a very idiosyncratic and impressive way. Despite a certain overload, highly recommended from around 16. "The Catholic lexicon of international film also praises itself:" Not a heroic song, but a self-critical and skeptical inventory. " Cinema.de takes the view that the work is one skeptical review by one of the most important Czech directors, whose critical films were often cut together by political censors.
Web links
- Long live the Republic in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 551/1967, pp. 696–697.
- ↑ Long live the republic. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Long live the republic. In: Cinema.de. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .