Konec stalinismu v Cechách (1990)

The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia / Konec stalinismu v Cechách (1990)



INFO:
Jan Svankmajer, UK, no language/visual, 1990, 10 min.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099386/
http://www.csfd.cz/film/8774-konec-stalinismu-v-cechach-death-of-stalinism-in-bohemia-the/

(en) A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution). Some knowledge of the subject is essential in order to understand the film, which is entirely visual.

One of its most criminal deeds of Czech Stalinism was the purge of the dissidents, and this is described directly as well as figuratively in the film. Workers with fingerless black gloves mold the clay into body parts from which replicas of a heroic worker are produced on an assembly line. This industrial system can be considered a criticism of the standardization of individuals during the Stalinist era. At the end of the conveyer the figures plummet onto a table, then right themselves and walk towards a gallows. They are promptly hanged, their bodies falling back into a bucket of clay. The bucket is carried to the workers making body parts, which suggests that the process may continue eternally.

(sk) Švankmajerův porevoluční návrat k ožehavým tématům minulých desetiletí formou jeho typicky surrealistické koláže, trefným využíváním některých obrazových paralel a celkovým laděním do satirické vzpomínky (a možná i vyhlídky).

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