Film and Protest – Popular Uprisings in the Cold War 5

Films

Sowjetische Truppen in Prag und Budapest (Panorama, 29.7.1968)

Filmstill Soviet Troops in Prague and Budapest (Panorama, 29.7.1968)
Sowjetische Truppen in Prag und Budapest (Panorama, 29.7.1968)
anonymous
FRG
Retrospective
A curious look at the socialist reform experiment in Prague, with sceptical undertones: Will everything end like it did in Hungary in 1956? Soviet tanks are already being deployed along the border of the ČSSR.

Confusion

Filmstill Confusion
Zmatek
Evald Schorm
Czechoslovakia
Retrospective
Secretly filmed footage of the suppression of the Prague Spring: hidden in archives for decades and screened 22 years later to the beat of Tchaikovsky.

Black Days

Filmstill Black Days
Čierne dni
Ladislav Kudelka, Milan Černák, Ctibor Kováč, Štefan Kamenický
Czechoslovakia
Retrospective
The invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968 from a Slovak perspective. Politicians and the population search for an appropriate attitude between caution and determination.

Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano, No. 422

Filmstill Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano, No. 422
Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano, No. 422
Santiago Álvarez
Cuba
Retrospective
Fidel Castro comments on the events of the Prague Spring – in surprisingly critical terms. This newsreel report was withdrawn from the Leipzig festival programme in 1968.

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