Prolece u Praskoj skoli

Summary 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. View more details

Prolece u Praskoj skoli

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Stars : Goran Markovic Lordan Zafranovic Srdjan Karanovic Rajko Grlic

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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 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. View more details

Details

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

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Episode 2 • Nov 29, 2023
Episode #1.2
On the same day and at the same time, a general strike began at all faculties in Prague as a protest against the Soviet occupation. We, of course, participated in it. Rajko Grlic and I were in charge of culture," says Srdan Karanovic, the director, remembering the summer of 1968 in Prague, and Rajko Grlic adds the story of the visit of the famous actress Jeanne Moreau to the rebellious students. The strike and sporadic protests, however, did not succeed and the USSR troops remained in Prague. Protesting against this and the lethargy of his compatriots, on January 16, 1969, student Jan Palach set himself on fire on Wenceslas Square in the center of the Czechoslovak capital. Pega Popovic is one of the few people who photographed the body of Jan Palah in the Prague morgue. Those photos, as a big exclusive, were published by the world's leading magazines, among them the French Paris Sword and the Italian Epoch. This , on one level, tells the story of how Popovic managed to take those photos at a time when Soviet tanks were still on the streets of Prague (or somewhere around the corner) and how his professor, the writer Milan Kundera, brought a journalist Parry the sword to him and said to her: "If anyone can give you what you need, it's him!" Popovic gave her the photos, but he also set her one rather strange condition - that he not be signed as the author. This information opens up new levels of this story, it tells about the fears that our students had at that time in occupied Czechoslovakia, but also about how today that extraordinary heroic gesture of Jan Palah is somewhat forgotten in his homeland.
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