Kája Saudek
Рождение : 1935-05-13, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Смерть : 2015-06-25
История
Karel "Kája" Saudek was a Czech comics illustrator and graphic artist. He was crowned the "King of Czech comic books", from the late 1960s he was considered one of the top artists of Czech comics. He and his twin brother, photographer Jan Saudek, were/are holocaust survivors.
A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can’t find a bottle-opener, and Ivan Diviš makes observations about his own funeral. This is the Czech Republic in the late 90s, as detailed in Karel Vachek’s documentary.
Art Direction
Two kind but foolish sisters live together in their villa in a small town in South Bohemia. Fany (Natasa Gollová) has never married and Andelka (Eva Svobodová) is a widow. In the morning, the two sisters go into town. They need to buy fuel oil, put money in the bank and give plums to the teller. In the meantime an smallish orange Skoda MB car parks at their house, with Hermínka (Iva Janzurová), the old ladies' niece, and her fiancé Michal (Jirí Hrzán) in it. Michal has forgotten to bring flowers and has to go into town to fetch them. At the bank, Fany wants to deposit money but the minute the teller opens the safe, a thief arrives. He knocks the teller and Fany unconscious and runs away with the money. When Fany comes to her senses again, she sees Michal and accuses him of being the thief.
Title Designer
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer and cunningly uses his horrifying reputation to get the respect and heart of his beloved Sabrina, a journalist from a local newspaper. But this game turns out to be risky and in the end, both gangs don't hesitate to seize the check at all costs, including an improvised operation
Graphic Designer
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer and cunningly uses his horrifying reputation to get the respect and heart of his beloved Sabrina, a journalist from a local newspaper. But this game turns out to be risky and in the end, both gangs don't hesitate to seize the check at all costs, including an improvised operation
Art Direction
Title Designer
Немолодая супружеская пара Беранковых, научных сотрудников, как обычно по четвергам, ложатся спать вместе. Руженка только что блестяще защитила новейший препарат по корекции сновидений, а Индрих озабочен созданием устройства для поднятий тяжелых грузов, идею которого он случайно находит в комиксе с очаровательной блондинкой Джесси на обложке. Мысли о гравитационной перчатке, описанной в комиксе, и о её обладательнице Джесси, не покидают его и во сне. Заметив это, супруга подключает к нему прибор трансляции снов, и, обнаружив на экране ту самую блондинку, решает применить на муже новоиспечённый препарат… Однако, как обнаружилось, у него есть побочный эфект — материализация сновидений.. Далее ожившие герои и злодеи комиксов со всеми своими сверхспособностями будоражат спокойную и размеренную Прагу.
Art Direction
Немолодая супружеская пара Беранковых, научных сотрудников, как обычно по четвергам, ложатся спать вместе. Руженка только что блестяще защитила новейший препарат по корекции сновидений, а Индрих озабочен созданием устройства для поднятий тяжелых грузов, идею которого он случайно находит в комиксе с очаровательной блондинкой Джесси на обложке. Мысли о гравитационной перчатке, описанной в комиксе, и о её обладательнице Джесси, не покидают его и во сне. Заметив это, супруга подключает к нему прибор трансляции снов, и, обнаружив на экране ту самую блондинку, решает применить на муже новоиспечённый препарат… Однако, как обнаружилось, у него есть побочный эфект — материализация сновидений.. Далее ожившие герои и злодеи комиксов со всеми своими сверхспособностями будоражат спокойную и размеренную Прагу.
Twin A
Karel Vachek’s graduate film offers us a documentary essay which is both a light-hearted and aggressive little piece and also a parody of investigative film journalism. The Strážnice folk festival, backed by the cultural Party apparatus of the time, for years had little to commend itself to authentic folklore. In the film the event assumes the form of a bizarre stage spectacle with almost surrealistic elements that Vachek reinforces with unconventional approaches (commentary appearing as titles on screen, singing, declamations into the camera, feature etudes, the fusion of news coverage and fiction). The result is a stirring film collage depicting various characters, from crowd-pleasers, Easter egg decorators, kitsch artists and peddlers, to museologists and local residents, all of whom come up against the eccentric "identical” twin reporters Karel and Jan Saudek and a bored actress who appears as an extra. Using their special blend of irony and wit, they present us with the sad truth.