1996

Against the backdrop of the election campaign of individual candidates to the Senate, we try to answer the following questions: How do people today understand politics? What kind of relationship do they have to politics and how do they experience responsibility for public affairs? What kind of importance do they ascribe to their votes? How do they perceive those involved in the practice of politics? Is there a distinct ethical code applicable to politics? Do independent figures have a chance to make a difference in Czech politics?

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Everything that happened under Real Socialism in Czechoslovakia.

At the beginning of the 1980s, one Soviet leader after another was dying. This inspired P. Křivka and P. Škoda, students at the university in Halle in the GDR, to rewrite the text of Ryba’s Christmas Mass. For five years this excellent parody served as an excuse for sentences without probation for subversive activity against the republic.

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A free continuation of the original graduate film by Jan Mudra which follows the lives of several girls from a children's home. It is conceived as a testimony to the manner in which the experience of girls such as these, girls brought up in state care, has affected their current lives. It shows what these young women are doing today, how they care for their own children, how life „in freedom“ has fulfilled their wishes and expectations.

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Saša came to Czechoslovakia in August 1968 as a nineteen-year-old private with the Soviet occupation army. He met a girl here, whom he later married, and moved to Prague for her sake. To this day he lives here and works at the Tatra factory in Smíchov.

                 The life story of Saša is that of a ‘pawn’ caught up in the gears of history and offers a glimpse into the Czech past from a different angle than is usual. It is a story that is ordinary and unique, just like every human fate.

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This documentary film focuses on a theme which had long been taboo in Bohemia. This film study about the attitude of the individual and society towards death and the terminally ill is an attempt to show that confrontation with one's own death is liberating both for the individual and for society. The film is based on the testimonies of terminally ill patients their relatives, doctors, nurses, hospice employees etc.

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