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Oratorio For Prague dir. Jan Nemec<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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“A unique document of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the movie was begun as a documentary about the liberalization of Czechoslovakia and then became a record of the entry of…”<\/p>\n

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Oratorio For Prague<\/em> (Czechoslovakia, 1968\/1990, B&W)\u00a0dir. Jan Nemec.<\/p>\n

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A Report on the Party and The Guests dir. Jan Nemec<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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“A small group of adult bourgeois friends are on a day outing in the country, that outing which includes having a picnic. While they are going for a walk after the picnic, they encounter a…”<\/p>\n

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A Report on the Party and The Guests<\/em> (Czechoslovakia, 1966, B&W)\u00a0dir. Jan Nemec.<\/p>\n

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The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia dir. Jan Svankmeier<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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“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).”<\/p>\n

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The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia<\/em> (United Kingdom, 1990, Color) dir. Jan Svankmeier.<\/p>\n

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Larks on a String dir. Ji\u0159\u00ed Menzel<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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“Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect ‘bourgeois elements’, a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.”<\/p>\n

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Larks on a String<\/em> (Czechoslovakia, 1969, Color)\u00a0dir. Ji\u0159\u00ed Menzel.<\/p>\n

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Daisies (Sedmikraski) dir. Vera Chytilov\u00e1<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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“Two girls try to understand the meaning of the world and their life.”<\/p>\n

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Daisies (Sedmikraski)<\/em>(Czechoslovakia, 1966, Color)dir. Vera Chytilov\u00e1.<\/p>\n

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Kolya dir. Jan Sver\u00e1k<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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“Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady’s man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet by playing…”<\/p>\n

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Kolya<\/em> (Czech Republic, 1996, Color)\u00a0dir.\u00a0Jan Sver\u00e1k.<\/p>\n

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Czech Dream (\u010cesky sen) dirs. V\u00edt Klus\u00e1k and Filip Remunda<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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“Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge campaign for the opening of a new supermarket named Czech Dream. The supermarket however…”<\/p>\n

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Czech Dream (\u010cesky sen)<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Czechoslovakia, 2004, Color)\u00a0dir.\u00a0V\u00edt Klus\u00e1k and\u00a0<\/span>Filip Remunda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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