Skřivánci na niti (1968)
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Cast
Rudolf Hrusínský, Jitka Zelenohorská, Václav Neckár, Vlastimil Brodský, Jaroslav Satoranský, Vladimír Smeral, Leoš Suchařípa
In the early 1950s, a group of bourgeois intellectuals is sent to a scrap-metal dump for communist re-education, but their spirited outlook resists the regime’s efforts.
The story
In the early 1950s, bourgeois people—including a doctor, a philosopher and a saxophonist—are sent to a scrap-metal dump. The regime intends for them to shed their old habits and be rehabilitated according to communist standards. Despite this imposed setting and purpose, they remain largely undeterred, continuing to talk about the world with cheerful nonchalance. The account presents their daily circumstances as a clash between political re-education and the persistence of their outlook, without describing what ultimately happens to them.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In the early 1950s, bourgeois are sent to a scrap-metal dump so they can lose their old habits and be rehabilitated according to the standards of the communist regime. They had been a doctor, a philosopher, a saxophonist... Yet nothing gets to them, and they continue, with cheerful nonchalance, to talk about the world.
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