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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780023628
Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0780023625
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Release Date: July 18, 2000
Running Time: 71 minutes
Sales Rank: 8760
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: November 24, 1969
Editorial Review:
Description:
Award-winning comedy (American National Society of Film Critics) revealing the hilarious lifestyles of the residents in a small country town. Brilliantly photographed by cinematographers Josef Strecha and Miroslav Ondricek (Amadeus, A League of Their Own), this spirited farce is never timid, never afraid to reach for the outlandish or sublime. With stunning performances and an unforgettable ending, director Ivan Passer (Cutter's Way) wonderfully illustrates how the simple life can often lead to the absurd.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A Complex Look at Culture and History in Socialist Czechoslovakia
A great and brilliantly subtle film. This is a turbulent and complex essay on local vs elite culture, on urban vs rural life styles, on utopian ideals vs difficult realities. It was made in the sixties as the satellite countries began to push for atonomy from a bureaucratic and repressive soviet system.
But it speaks to everyone in its portrayal of the role of art and beauty in the lives of common people.
DeeDee Halleck
Rating: - The Czech Film Renaissance of the 1960s
During the sixties, before the Russian brutal invasion, the first "Velvet Revolution" in Czechoslovakia manifested itself, among other areas, in a creative new freedom in filmmaking; the films that emerged from that period stand up to the best of Italian Neo-Realism or the French New Wave.
Ivan Passer was Milos Forman's writing partner and his exquisite humor and story telling savoir made itself felt in Forman's early Czech comedies. Then Mr. Passer made his own masterpeice, Intimate ... Read More
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