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Retrospective 2023
Filmstill Black Days
Black Days
Ladislav Kudelka, Milan Černák, Ctibor Kováč, Štefan Kamenický
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.
Filmstill Black Days

Black Days

Čierne dni
Ladislav Kudelka, Milan Černák, Ctibor Kováč, Štefan Kamenický
Retrospective 2023
Documentary Film
Czechoslovakia
1968
30 minutes
Slovak
Subtitles: 
English

“Stay calm and level-headed!” Endless armoured convoys, radio stations broadcasting their potentially last announcements and the Slovak Communist Party meeting Czech party representatives. Shaky images and wailing sirens testify to the tension as Warsaw Pact troops march into Bratislava, too, to suppress the Prague Spring.

Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

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Director
Ladislav Kudelka, Milan Černák, Ctibor Kováč, Štefan Kamenický
Cinematographer
Vladimír Holloš, Leopold Bródy, Pavel Čilek, Oskar Šághy, Mikuláš Fodor, Rudolf Ferko
Editor
Juraj Lexmann, Anna Forischová
Producer
Československý film Bratislava
Sound
Jozef Kováčik, Jaroslav Kopernický, Alexander Pallós, Ján Fabián
Retrospective 2023
Filmstill Confusion
Confusion
Evald Schorm
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.
Filmstill Confusion

Confusion

Zmatek
Evald Schorm
Retrospective 2023
Documentary Film
Czechoslovakia
1969
36 minutes
Czech
Subtitles: 
English

No images of value but “confused material.” For decades, footage secretly filmed in August 1968 in Prague was hidden in archives under this label. Evald Schorm recovered the illegal material and composed it to the beat of Tchaikovsky recordings, in keeping with its expressive nature. The film could finally be publicly shown in 1990.

Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

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Director
Evald Schorm
Cinematographer
Stanislav Milota, Jaromír Kallista, Jiří Macák, Ivan Vojnár, Jozef Ort-Šne, Jozef Ort-Šnep
Editor
Vlasta Styblíková
Producer
Krátký Film Praha