1992

The film captures the situation of the Czech minority settled during the last century in the Ukraine, now the region worst afficted by the Chernobyl disaster. Kvasnicka's film shows the social reality of the Ukraine today and the consequences of the long inhuman regime. In film the ordinary, simple people decide to leave their home or to stay on in the mortally dangerous country. This film is thematically linked to that of O. Sommerová, whose document Home from Home describes the first months of the settlers' life in their new homeland.

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In 1991 one of the poorest Romany settlements at Spis- Eastern Slovakia was moved into housing estate blocks. The film captures the situation before the move, the move itself and six months after arriving at their new homes.

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Zlin, Bata and the world of "enterprise" are inseparably linked concepts. The portraits of several contemporary Zlin enterpreneurs give their answers to the question - "How the things look in Zlin today?" Does the entrepreneurial spirit of the founder of Bata, Tomas Bata - the world famous maker of footwear, still exist here today?

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The film captures the fortunes of some Czechs from Vohynia, a region in the Ukraine , after their moving to Czechoslovakia. The picture also deals with the attitude of "post-totalitarian" Czechoslovak society to various vulnerable minorities, the Czechs from the Ukraine being one of them. The words of some interviwed Czechs born in Czechoslovakia are proof of their willingness to welcome their new compatriots kindly and to facilitate the latter's difficult situation as much as possible.Conversely, other interviewed Czech's words express egoism and refusal. The imigrants' confessions are not free of nostalgia , grief and a feeling of uprooting, but gratitude for liberal reception and their hopes that everything will be all right in the future prevail.

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A documentary film about a relationship which had to wait thirty years for its fulfilment, the totalitarian politics of the Albanian dictator was responsible for its sad intermezzo. A Czech female student and an Albanian student of medicine met each other in Prague at the end of the 1950s. Until the changes in Europe at the end of the 1980s the lovers couldn't meet again. The film exposes the thorough system penistentiares and detention camps for enemies of the regime.

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This film has the form of a discussion program rather than a film as such.In an improvised studio sicx men come together who have certain views on the voting system as it developed in Czechoslovakia over the years from 1918. The well known Czechoslovak personalities - the sociologists, historian, musician and publicists are in the debate about the end of the era of totalitarian rituals and the time coming for citizens to take responsibility.

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Pavlína is a drug - addict who is put away along with her boyfriend for illegal manufacture and use of drugs. Pavlína doesn't believe she can stop taking them. After the amnesty they get together again and immediately start once more. They "go for it hard". Pavlína (later) discovers that she is pregnant. She has no choice but to have the baby. Roman carries on taking drugs. Little Roman is born and he goes from the hospital straight into an institution. Pavlína wants the baby even though she is taking drugs, she promises that she'll stop. They live in a rented flat, they get married and the child comes home. Eventually they even receive their own flat on outskirts of Kladno. They claim they have stopped taking drugs for ever ... these are, as is later proven, just words, in reality they carry on... After a crackdown by police on drug users in Kladno in October of 1991 they catch Roman just as he is making the drug in the flat. Roman is put in prison immediately and the baby goes back to the institution. Pavlína remains in the flat by herself and shoots up with abandon... Roman awaits a court hearing and could get between 2 and 8 years ...

A unique film series begun by director Helena Trestikova in the spring of 1989 using an unusual and singular technique whereby the lives of the film subjects are filmed over a number of years and told within the confines of one film. The material was filmed in a correctional facility for young people in Libkovice over a period of between two and five years. The films capture not only the changes in the lives of the individual protagonists, but also the changes to the whole of society.

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A collage of images from Prague during the course of the free elections in Czechoslovakia held in 1990. A humorous look at the atmosphere of that exciting time.

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The Premonstratensian monastery in Tepla has been brought back to life with the presence of its monks who began, in 1990, to tie together the severed threads of the existence of their monastic community in this devastated spriritual domicile.

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This is the story of a German from the Czech borders region of Orlicke hory whose fate we witness from a personal view as the history of 20th century Europe enters the life of an ordinary man. At the same time it is a film about humility and faith.

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This film follows the life experiences of Vietnamese people living in Czechoslovakia. They are divided into two main groups - those who try to get on with living as best they can, and then the more intellectual Vietnamese, perceptively following everything which is going on our country and the whole of Europe, trying to spread their information and thoughts among their people. All of them, however, experience similar feelings - detachment, dissimilarity and a greater or lesser isolation - which we often perceive as their inferioty and fear of us all.

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This document presentds the portrait of two physically handicapped women who at the time of filming, were preparingfor the Paraolympics in Barcelona 1992. The twenty - one - year old Pavla Valníčková is a blind athlete, Věra Jirásková, a mother of three sons, confined to a wheelchair after an accident, is a javelin and discus thrower. The film is a simple celebration of human endeavour to overcome oneself.

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Unemployment in Czechoslovakia, until 1989, was something that belonged to the past, a conecpt of text-books and films about social issues. With the development of market economy it returned to Czechoslovakia,however, and the people were wholly unprepared for it.Petr Slavík visited roughly seventy "afficted" people and selected eight subjects. This representative reveals in this film survey how society is coming to terms with its problems.

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