Intimate lighting

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Movie
German title Intimate lighting
Original title Intimní osvětleni
Country of production Czechoslovakia
original language Czech
Publishing year 1965
length 75 minutes
Rod
Director Ivan Passer
script Jaroslav Papoušek
Ivan Passer
Václav Šašek
production František Sandr
music Oldřich František Korte
Josef Hart
camera Josef Střecha
Miroslav Ondříček
cut Jiřina Lukešová
occupation

Intimate lighting (original title: Intimní osvětleni ) is a Czechoslovakian film by the director Ivan Passer from 1965 in black and white. Together with Jaroslav Papoušek he had also written the script. It is based on a story by Bohumil Hrabal . The two main roles are occupied by Zdeněk Bezušek and Karel Blažek . The film first hit cinemas in his home country on April 8, 1965. It had its cinema premiere in the GDR on December 9, 1966. In the Federal Republic of Germany, it could be seen for the first time on February 22, 1968 in the first ARD program.

action

Bambas, director of a music school, meets his school friend Petr, who has made it to become a cellist in an orchestra, in a small Czech town. At Bamba's invitation, Petr and his fun-loving girlfriend spend two days with his family. Both men had lofty plans for the future, but they remained unfulfilled because they first had to create a secure existence for themselves. They want to fight their situation, but actually the fight has already been decided. The friends have come to terms with their situation and have given up. Their “struggle” is merely a mock battle against reality, more an attempt at justification than rebellion. Both have the same job, had the same career opportunities and now have the same fate. They have long conversations full of irony and resignation, but do not realize that they are connected by their failure. Their worldview is too different for that.

criticism

The evangelical film observer judges: “The idle life of two school friends, their resigned fights for retreat from reality serve to ask about the meaning of life. The situation of failure is explained with sociological facts, but those who fail remain individualities. An intelligently designed film by the young Czech director Ivan Passer. "The lexicon of international films draws the following conclusion:" The clash of saturated cosiness with the irreverent vigor of the younger generation is taking on tragicomic proportions. Debut feature film by the Czech Passer [...], which caricatures bourgeois smug and helpless traditionalism in the CSSR in a dense composition of pointed individual observations. "

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 201/1966, pp. 384–385
  2. Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 1825