Prague Playhouse

Anagram Film Club #6

March 20th, 2007 at 07:38pm brian

This week we will be screening the feature film UCHO (The Ear), from 1970 in Czech with English subtitles directed by Karel Kachyna, screenplay by Jan Prochazka & Karel Kachyna based upon a story by Jan Prochazka.

At the end of the Fifties the situation of Czechoslovak film worsened as several films were banned for political reasons.  This nonsensical, publicly proclaimed ban united many filmmakers and writers in protest. That was when Karel Kachyna met Jan Prochazka.

Kachyna and Prochazk became notorious in the 1960s for making films that “strained the boundaries of government-imposed strictures and subtly criticized the Communist Party.”  With UCHO, the second-to-last film they would team up on (Prochazka died in 1971), Kachyna distinguished himself from other Czech New Wave directors by making a directly political film which was critical of the rule of right-wing Party leader Gustav Husák

This political noir-drama was banned immediately upon completion and the ban was not lifted until the Velvet Revolution in 1989.

We will also have a program of eclectic and interesting shorts before the feature.
Just a short walk down from Green Line metro stop Jirího z Poděbrad on Vinohradska.

Gusto Restaurant
Vinohradska 83
Prague 2

Hope to see you all there,

MaTT&MiRO
AFC

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