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Экранизация рассказа «Тьма не отбрасывает тени» классика чешской литературы и свидетеля холокоста Арношта Лустига — автобиографической истории о двух еврейских подростках, которые сбегают из нацистского поезда, везущего их в концлагерь. Скрываясь от фашистов, они несутся куда глаза глядят; скитаются по дикому лесу; затаив дыхание, прислушиваются к любому шуму. Не останавливаются. В моменты истощения и предельной усталости герои видят сны — обрывочные, сбивающие с толку и дающие надежду. Постепенно граница между реальным и воображаемым становится неразличимой — так же, как и грань между настоящим, прошлым и будущим.
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Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to her boss to compete.
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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.
