Subtitle:

Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, Vol. 55, No 3 (2020), Special Issue

Contributor:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Publisher:

Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

p. 75-102 ; Abstract in Polish and English.

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Abstract:

Kachyňa’s "Smugglers of Death", first screened in Polish cinemas in 1960, was considered by critics as one of the top achievements of Czechoslovak film-making. Their focus, however, was on the entertainment and technical aspects of the work (treating it as a successful, ambitious genre film), glossing over its genesis, ideological content and political message. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, "Smugglers of Death", along with such pictures as "Romeo, Juliet and Darkness" by Jiří Weiss and "Invention for Destruction" by Karel Zeman, became one of the most highly rated and most extensively discussed Czechoslovak films in the Polish press. Yet in the meantime, Polish film critics (who gave surprisingly low ratings to "Hic Sunt Leones" by Václav Krška and "At the Terminus" by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos) overlooked or downplayed the importance of the “thaw-era” pictures produced by the Czechoslovak First Wave, which burst the socialist realism straitjacket and experimented with new language and contemporary topics in the late 1950s.

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Relation:

Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej ; Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej

Volume:

55

Issue:

3

Start page:

75

End page:

102

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:150911 ; 1230-5057 ; 2353-6403 ; 10.12775/SDR.2020.EN5.04

Source:

IH PAN, sygn. A.453/55/3 Podr. ; IH PAN, sygn. A.454/55/3 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Access:

Open