Summary "When I photographed Jan Palah in the Prague morgue on January 19, 1969, his face was yellow," says Predarg Popovic, cameraman, in the first sentence of the first episode of this series. In the following, the participants, then students of the FAMU film academy in Prague, recall their departure from the then much more liberal SFRY to Czechoslovakia in 1965. It was a country in the complete darkness of real socialism, a member of the Warsaw Pact, under the direct supervision of the USSR. But also a country with a rich culture. Then in 1968, the Prague Spring happened, a wave of democracy and freedom which, led by the then president Aleksandar Dubcek, changed everything, gave Czechs and Slovaks hope for a better tomorrow and, as they believed, "socialism with a human face". But the Soviets did not sit idly by and on August 21, 1968, together with five other Warsaw Pact member countries, they occupied Czechoslovakia and stopped those democratic changes. About fifty people died, the rest resigned themselves to their fate, and important filmmakers Milos Forman, Ivan Paser or Jan Kadar emigrated. Participant witnesses talk about the ways in which they left occupied Czechoslovakia, as well as the events that preceded it, in the first episode.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Goran Markovic Lordan Zafranovic Srdjan Karanovic Rajko Grlic
Genres : Biography
Release date : Nov 22, 2023
Countries of origin : Serbia
Official sites : Production company
Language : Serbian
Filming locations : Serbia
Production companies : Arbos Production Stap I Kanap Production
Summary "When I photographed Jan Palah in the Prague morgue on January 19, 1969, his face was yellow," says Predarg Popovic, cameraman, in the first sentence of the first episode of this series. In the following, the participants, then students of the FAMU film academy in Prague, recall their departure from the then much more liberal SFRY to Czechoslovakia in 1965. It was a country in the complete darkness of real socialism, a member of the Warsaw Pact, under the direct supervision of the USSR. But also a country with a rich culture. Then in 1968, the Prague Spring happened, a wave of democracy and freedom which, led by the then president Aleksandar Dubcek, changed everything, gave Czechs and Slovaks hope for a better tomorrow and, as they believed, "socialism with a human face". But the Soviets did not sit idly by and on August 21, 1968, together with five other Warsaw Pact member countries, they occupied Czechoslovakia and stopped those democratic changes. About fifty people died, the rest resigned themselves to their fate, and important filmmakers Milos Forman, Ivan Paser or Jan Kadar emigrated. Participant witnesses talk about the ways in which they left occupied Czechoslovakia, as well as the events that preceded it, in the first episode.
Genres : Biography
Release date : Nov 22, 2023
Countries of origin : Serbia
Official sites : Production company
Language : Serbian
Filming locations : Serbia
Production companies : Arbos Production Stap I Kanap Production
