Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliste (Prefab Story) 1980 Ages 15+
When
2.30 pm, Sun 29 Jul 2018 (96 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
About
This scathing and often very funny rubbishing of life under Normalisation (1969–1987) has had scant exposure abroad; the local authorities did their utmost to suppress it domestically for many years, too. Working once more with Jaromír Šofr, her cameraman from Ceiling and A Bagful of Fleas, Véra Chytilová presents a frantic, wide-angled, noisy mosaic of life at a monstrous, underdone, debris-ridden high-rise housing estate on Prague’s outskirts, cocking a vicious snook at its Potemkin village pretensions to community building.
Ages 15+
Production Credits
- Director: Véra Chytilová
- Script: Véra Chytilová, Eva Kacírková
- Cinematographer: Jaromir Sofr
- Editor: Jirí Brozek
- Print Source / Rights: National Film Archive, Prague
- Year: 1980
- Runtime: 96 minutes
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Language: Czech
- Subtitles: English
- Colour: Colour
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: DCP