Boasting some of the most attractive films produced in the Europe of the 60s, the Czech New Wave is the "golden era" in the country's distinguished cinematic history and the obvious starting point for anyone wanting to learn more about Czech... [more]
Boasting some of the most attractive films produced in the Europe of the 60s, the Czech New Wave is the "golden era" in the country's distinguished cinematic history and the obvious starting point for anyone wanting to learn more about Czech film. The Czech New Wave is usually defined as by a relatively small group of directors, including MiloÅ¡ Forman, Jirà Menzel, Vera Chytilová, JaromÃr JireÅ¡ and Ivan Passer, who made their debuts in or around 1963 and continued to produce internationally acclaimed work through most of the rest of the decade.
However, there was no manifesto or theoretical writings that the group, which was never a formal one, drew on, and it's hard to pin the Wave down to any one style: works of playful observation, visual poetry, biting sarcasm, gentle humanism, mocking absurdism, tender eroticism and formal experimentalism count among the films by the Wave's directors.
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