7. Prolece u Praskoj skoli
Nov 22, 2023
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TV Shows
This is a story about a famous photograph and its author, about challenges and fears, about censorship and self-censorship in the turbulent time of the Prague Spring and the military intervention of the USSR in 1968 in what was then Czechoslovakia. Film authors who at that time studied at FAMU in Prague give their view of these events, with a distance of fifty years, and later, when they began to realize their film achievements in the cinematography of the former Yugoslavia, they were classified in the "Czech school" which gave birth to some of the most important films of a country that no longer exists. Predrag Pega Popovic is a famous director of photography, the first graduate cinematographer in the former Yugoslavia, professor and dean at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, a man who shot 26 feature films. During his studies at the prestigious FAMU in Prague, together with Goran Markovic, Srdjan Karanovic, Lordan Zafranovic, Goran Paskaljevic and Rajko Grlic, who participate in this documentary TV series, the Prague Spring of 1968 took place, then the intervention of the USSR and the five countries of the Warsaw Pact and , as a paradigmatic ending, the self-immolation of Jan Palah in January 1969.
