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Jahr

History of 8s

Documentary Film
ČSSR
1968
12 minutes
Subtitles: 
German

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Jaromír Kallista
Director
Václav Táborský
Cinematographer
František Vlček
Editor
Marie Křížková
Script
Václav Táborský
Sound
Benjamin Astrug
1968, another eight in a long row of fateful years: 1618, the Defenestration of Prague. 1918, the founding of Czechoslovakia. 1938, the Munich Agreement.

Ralph Eue

Oratorio for Prague

Documentary Film
France,
USA,
ČSSR
1968
29 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Claude Berri, Jean-Pierre Rassam
Director
Jan Němec
Music
Ladislav Štaidl
Cinematographer
Stanislav Szomolányi
The major key of enthusiasm turns into the minor key of crushed hopes in this film, shot clandestinely and smuggled abroad.

Ralph Eue
Retrospective 2018
The Wake Vlado Kubenko, Peter Mihálik, Dušan Trančík

What is the political significance of the death of Jan Palach, who publicly burned himself in protest against the “sister state” invasion of the ČSSR?

The Wake

Documentary Film
ČSSR
1969
24 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
L’ubomír Jurčo
Director
Vlado Kubenko, Peter Mihálik, Dušan Trančík
Cinematographer
Alexander Strelinger, Pavel Čilek, Ervín Potocký, Alojz Hanúsek, Vladimír Holloš, Jozef Müller
Editor
Anna Forischová
Script
Vlado Kubenko, Peter Mihálik, Dušan Trančík
Sound
Alexander Pallós, Július Santoris
Narrator
Igor Fábry
What is the political significance of the death of Jan Palach, who publicly burned himself in protest against the “sister state” invasion of the ČSSR?

Tobias Hering