“Totalitarian regimes are also united by the fact that they have absolutely no sense of humor,” Eben further mentioned.
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He added that for those who have not yet seen the iconic film of the Czechoslovak new wave, he has yet another lesson: “It’s about bindings. And while earlier the leading role of the party was guarded, today political correctness is guarded…”
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According to him, “new bondsmen have arisen” instead of old bondsmen who make other people’s lives uncomfortable in Žert.
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Joke, another of the classic film works that the audience will see in a better form.
Photo: NFA
The joke was restored thanks to the Kučerov couple. They paid for everything. Over the past eight years, they have already saved 23 titles for future viewers in this way.
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Eduard Kučera explained his generosity on Saturday at the KV IFF by saying that he sees meaning in everything and added: “The films are beautiful, important, but also short… I myself saw Žert in the late 1960s. Probably the only one in this hall.’
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Movie from the vault
The Joke is a masterful film adaptation of Milan Kundera’s famous book, which unfolds a darkly grotesque story about how an innocent student recession can fundamentally destroy human life if it takes place against the backdrop of totalitarian intolerance, tinkering and whistleblowing. Kundera participated in the creation of the script.
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Marek Eben presented the remastered film Jest at the KV IFF on Saturday. The sponsor is the Kučera couple (Eduard Kučera in the picture) and the film was edited by UPP.
Photo: Milan Malíček, Law
The film premiered in cinemas at the beginning of 1969, was awarded at the Czech and Slovak Film Festival in Sorrento, Italy, where it won the Silver Siren award, and an award at the 17th IFF in San Sebastián.
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At the beginning of normalization, it was stored in a safe and was not shown at a number of international film festivals until after 1989. The source for digitization was the original image negative and the original sound negative stored in the National Film Archive.
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