Directed by:
Shivendra Singh DungarpurScreenplay:
Shivendra Singh DungarpurCinematography:
David ČálekCast:
Jiří Menzel, Miloš Forman, Juraj Jakubisko, Dušan Hanák, Věra Chytilová, Agnieszka Holland, Emir Kusturica, Ivan Passer, Karel Vachek, Miroslav Ondříček (more)Plots(1)
Epic, expansive, affectionate and deeply passionate, CzechMate In Search of Jiri Menzel is the definitive work on the Czechoslovak New Wave. This extraordinary documentary film, a labour of love by archivist and filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, has a depth and scale unparalleled in the study of the Czechoslovak cinema. Jiri Menzel s debut film Closely Observed Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky, 1966) made a profound impression on young film student Dungarpur. Years later, he invited Menzel to meet him in a Prague café - and so began a conversation and a friendship that has culminated in this epic, seven-hour film that not only explores the deceptively whimsical comic films of Jiri Menzel, but all of the artists who strove to make films that whispered subversion and rebellion often at the risk of their livelihood, or even their lives. Filmed over a period of seven years, Dungarpur and his team interviewed filmmakers, actors, crew members, writers, historians and critics who had been touched by the New Wave. (Second Run)
(more)Cast
Jiří Menzel
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Elementary School (1991)
The Cremator (1968)
Larks on a String (1969)
Miloš Forman
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Silvery Wind (1954)
Keeping the Faith (2000)
Vintage Car (1956)
Juraj Jakubisko
Czechoslovakia
Dušan Hanák
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Od štvrtka do zmŕtvychvstania (1969) (TV movie)
Věra Chytilová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Agnieszka Holland
Poland
Best movies:
Interrogation (1982)
Illumination (1972)
Zdjęcia próbne (1976)
Emir Kusturica
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Underground (1995)
Arizona Dream (1993)
The Whirl (2012)
Ivan Passer
Czechoslovakia
Karel Vachek
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Miroslav Ondříček
Czechoslovakia
David Ondříček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Blockbuster (1980)
Whisper (1996)
Příběh lásky a cti (1977)
Bohumil Hrabal (a.f.)
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Snowdrop Festival (1983)
Pearls of the Deep (1965)
Too Loud a Solitude (1994)
Jan Hřebejk
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Year of the Devil (2002)
Big Beat (1993)
Whisper (1996)
Ken Loach
UK
Woody Allen
USA
Best movies:
Love and Death (1975)
Annie Hall (1977)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Martin Šulík
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Teacher (2016)
Kára plná bolesti (1985)
Some Secrets (2002)
Hynek Bočan
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Olověný chléb (1953)
Vojtěch Jasný
Czechoslovakia
Jan Rejžek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Innocent Lies (2013) (series)
Photographer (2015)
Corpus delicti (1991)