kratkyfilm.com: The fortress in the setting of the landscape gives an impression of a den or a detention colony of Kafka’s fiction. The watch-towers, barbed-wire-fencing, severe guarding, all that in all-prevailin feeling of strangeness and mystery provoke fear. Immediately, the question will arise, what is it that is so strictly guarded. We witness the absurdity as expressed by Franz Kafka, and the nonsensicality of the bureaucratic and the barracklike spiritlessness as ridiculed by Jaroslav Hasek in his soldier Svejk. The story takes place in the second half of the eighties. The regime of power is tired, but any changes are out of sight. Some people are trying to find their asylum in their privacy, some defect. Who is not willing to get adapted, lives at the outskirts of the society. So, for example, the forty-year old intellectual Ewald can not perform his profession, as he could not comply with requirements of the political regime. He earns his living just to sustain, and at the moment he is assigned to measure the capacity of water bore in the vicinity of the fortress. He lives in a caravan-trailer, measures the yield of the water source, and as a little boy enjoys the beauty of the nature and the life of a backwoodsman. He makes friends with a priest from a nearby parish and pals up with a local interesting eccentric, who enjoys freedom by being taken for a fool. Can a man be happy just playing his mouth-organ, enjoying the sky over his head, with barbed-wire fences in sight. It is even convincing and moving, just as his falling in love. People who are lonely attract each other. But can the passion of mature lovers make good for the prospects of life?
Ewald makes friends with the head officer of the fortress. Their friendship is a strange, unusual relation of two men of different characters, linked by a feeling of loneliness, need of sincerity and even a mutual respect, which stems from understanding each other.
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At last, Ewald finds out, that there is nothing to be guarded in the fortress. It is generally known or at least suspected, but nobody would dare to disclose this well-known secret. A hard pressure is exerted upon Ewald to become one of those who „know“ but keep silent. Ewald is not able to adapt and he does not want to. He has to be liquidated. The commander of the fortress finally shoots him, though reluctantly, but obeying orders of the superiors. For the public an accident is pretended – snakebite by vipers.

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Language:Czech
Subtitles:English

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A hillbilly inherits millions and goes to the city, leaving his village to live a rich man’s life in post communist Czech Republic.

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https://nitro.download/view/213BC0F016A1015/Dedictvi.aneb.Kurvahosigutntag.AKA.The.Inheritance.or.Fuckoffguysgoodday.1992.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv

Language:Czech,German
Subtitles:English,Czech

The post Vera Chytilová – Dedictvi aneb Kurvahosigutntag AKA The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A biting comedy concerning the lives of two young people who meet one day in a house in Brno in order to put their ideals of love into practice. A story about a couple not yet prepared for sexual life and a renowned actor no longer in his sexual prime.

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Language(s):Czech
Subtitles:English,Czech

The post Vladimír Morávek – Nuda v Brne AKA Bored in Brno AKA Boredom in Brno (2003) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A joint work of three debuting directors. It is a film about former rock musicians, members of a banned rock band. The friends were forced to replace their ideals by settled family lives and ordinary jobs. When their former lead singer has to go to hospital for therapy, they get an unexpected opportunity to play together again and recall the old times. The day when all needs to be arranged for the performance is full of small lies, compromises, and morally doubtful decisions.

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https://nitro.download/view/657539FE83E5092/Only.a.Day.1988.576p.DVD.x264.AC3-Llama.mkv

Language:Slovak
Subtitles:English, Slovak

The post Kveto Hecko & Michal Ruttkay & Vladimir Stric – Iba den AKA Only a Day (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

From starburstmagazine
For anyone feeling a little squeamish, of vegetarian inclination or just full from a hearty meal, the graphic opening scenes of Traps (or Pasti, Pasti, Pasticky to give its original title) that feature pig castration may prove a little difficult to stomach. These images also feel burned into your retina somehow; a poignant, pre-emptive piece of filmmaking that becomes disturbingly relevant later in the film. For Czech new wave director Vera Chytilovà, filmmaking was a mission. She became a dominant force in the industry and was often described as a militant feminist, although she preferred the term individualist. Traps bears many of the hallmarks that justify both these labels, and even now remains both boldly ambitious and deeply flawed.

After being raped, Lenka (Zuzana Stivinová) exacts immediate revenge, drugging her attackers before castrating them (remember those images?). She then withdraws into herself, unsure of her actions and of the true motives of those around her. The two men, Dohnal (Miroslav Donutil), a reforming politician, and Petr (Tomás Hanák), and advertising executive in search of his muse, try in their own ways to ill-advisedly make amends while also struggling to restore some normality to their lives.

Traps varies unpredictably in tone throughout, at times veering from bawdy, almost slapstick humour, to dark, emotion-filled moments that are as uncomfortable to watch as the castration scenes. Chytilovà also makes no attempt to hide her distaste of the political and social “elite” that populate her film, the central characters only learning to understand and face the consequences of their actions once they have already received their lifetime sentence.

This random approach to narrative makes the film difficult to follow at times. The rape, while being key to the plot and disturbing almost through its lack of perceived violence, becomes a secondary priority in comparison to the men’s castration; Chytilovà sporadically presents Dohnal and Peter as the victims who just want to move on with their lives. This imbalance leads in part to some scenes that are both distasteful and unpalatable and while the director’s overall message is clear, it becomes murky and perhaps even misguided at times.

There is one unarguable element to Traps, and that is its reluctance to fall into conventional classification or genre. At heart it is a strangely twisted black comedy containing moments that will make you laugh out loud. Behind the humour, though, there is serious intent by its maker to cast a critical eye over the political landscape of her country in the 1990s. Traps is not for everyone and yet contradictorily contains moments that everyone will relate to or find of interest. As an example of Czech filmmaking of the period, a time of confusion and expression that reflected the country itself, Chytilovà’s dark feature is a perfect example. Traps isn’t a film you will return to time and again, but it is a film that will remain with you for some time.

https://nitro.download/view/31211AC25A84523/Pasti,_pasti,_pasticky_AKA_Traps_-_1998_-_Vera_Chytilova.mkv

Language(s):Czech
Subtitles:English

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