| Brief Description: | One of the wonders of the Czech New Wave, All My Good Countrymen is
also one of the least-known films from this miraculous era of Czech
filmmaking. The reason is obvious: completed barely before the Soviet
invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, it was immediately banned and
never shown. Despite this, the film won the Special Jury Prize of the
Cannes Film Festival, and stylistically is a work of great lyricism,
humor and originality. It weaves magical--and very funny--stories
about a group of characters in a small Moravian village, immediately
following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948. "The film and
the milieu it so precisely evokes are not so much nostalgic as they
are powerfully remembered and irrevocably lost.All My Good Countrymen
reflects the curdled fury of a former true believer" (J. Hoberman, The
Village Voice). Czech with English subtitles. |
