Ohjaus:
Karel VachekKäsikirjoitus:
Karel VachekKuvaus:
Karel SlachNäyttelijät:
Karel Vachek, Václav Havel (a.o.), Alexander Dubček (a.o.), Miloš Zeman (a.o.), Jan Palach (a.o.), Boris Hybner (a.o.), Pepa NosJuonikuvaukset(1)
June 1659. Richard Cromwell flees to France to save his life. July 1793. Jean-Paul Marat's hand lifelessly hangs from his bathtub. August 1940. Ramón Mercades stands at the front door of a house. In his hand an ice-axe which he later uses to smash Trotsky's skull. August 1968. Tanks in the streets of Prague..."Revolutions come to keep the old order" as the old count in Lampedusa's Leopard says. That is one of the reasons he sends his nephew to become a revolutionary. After the revolution comes a restoration of the old order. And power, same as wealth, remains in the hands of a few chosen ones. Communism is a new film essay by the documentary filmmaker Karel Vachek, who, constantly swapping Bertold Brecht and Samuel Beckett masks and thus in disguise, accompanies the audiences through a collage composed of staged passages of utopian and contemporary literature, his own memories as well as a tableaux of world events. Vachek recalls his experiences and points of view from when he was a hotelkeeper's child, through his first-hand experience with the Prague Spring, persecution and the return of capitalism to Czechoslovakia. His essay has Bradbury's characters meet with Soviet revolutionaries, kings and queens with puppets, and religious people with celebrity athletes. And to boot, music plays and jollity is the order of the day. Apart from Vachek, actors also present texts and become (for the central trio) opponents, partners, an ancient chorus and a modern voice-band reciting amongst hundreds of books in libraries. Majority of wise people are dead now and the books are a way to communicate with them. According to Vachek, our democracy is entirely controlled by advertising. The only one who can rule is someone who has got enough money for a campaign. The next revolution will take place on the internet and bureaucrats will only carry out tasks which have been approved by citizens in referendums. And it will be no idyllic stroll. Even the French Revolution was horrific. (Ostrava Kamera Oko)
(lisää)Näyttelijät
Karel Vachek
Böömin ja Määrin protektoraatti
Václav Havel (a.o.)
Tšekkoslovakia
Parhaat elokuvat:
Devadesátky (2022) (sarja) - a.o.
Marta Kubišová 1990 (1990) (konsertti)
Largo desolato (1991) (teatteritallenne) - kertoja
Alexander Dubček (a.o.)
Tšekkoslovakia
Parhaat elokuvat:
Invasion (1980) (TV elokuva) - a.o.
Jan Palach (2018) - a.o.
Dubček - Krátka jar, dlhá zima (2018) - a.o.
Miloš Zeman (a.o.)
Böömin ja Määrin protektoraatti
Parhaat elokuvat:
Devadesátky (2022) (sarja) - a.o.
Kandidát (2013)
Prezident Blaník (2018)
Jan Palach (a.o.)
Tšekkoslovakia
Boris Hybner (a.o.)
Böömin ja Määrin protektoraatti
Parhaat elokuvat:
Kotini on linnani (1999)
Jára Cimrman ležící, spící (1983)
Rozpuštěný a vypuštěný (1984)
Pepa Nos
Tšekkoslovakia
Parhaat elokuvat:
Maigret (1991) (sarja)
Grimmin veljekset (2005)
Perníková věž (2002)