Film as a Form of Dissent: The Politics of Czech Film Miracle
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SummaryIn the 1960s Prague was abuzz with artistic excitement. Prague had long been the site of innovative creations in classical music and theater, but now the films coming out of the state sponsored film industry were making headlines, not only in Eastern Europe, but around the world. Czech films were winning Academy Awards in the US, being shown at the World Expo in Belgium, and being hailed by many in both the East and West as an artistic miracle. Most of these films went beyond simple art though. For many of the directors making films during the Czech Film Miracle moviemaking was a form of dissent; there only way of speaking out against a government that financially supported them but artistically and personally suppressed them.
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- The film industry in Czechoslovakia became nationalized on August 11, 1945.
- Many filmmakers initial enthusiasm for nationalized cinema quickly dampened in 1948.
- The Great Initiative sought to strengthen the social realism aspect of films.
- In 1956 most of the countries in the Eastern Bloc experienced a period of loosening Communist control.
- The background of the new generation of filmmakers had a major influence on their artistic work.
- In 1962 Sunshine in a Net, widely considered the first Czech New Wave film, was made by director Stefan Uher.
- Czech New Wave did not have the same cohesive style as the French New Wave films.
- The films of the Czech New Wave formed a movement not because they shared stylistic concerns.
- 1968 there was a window of opportunity that allowed the artistic vision of several generations to be realized.
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