A sekat dobrotu... (1968)

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   BaalMan

   W/ eng subs
   
   https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/channel/detailview/a-sekat-dobrotu/ 11 months 2 weeks ago
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   onuryz

   finally a subbed version! 3 years ago
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   Armoreska

   Subbed!
   

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   It is one thing to make a fictional film in the West about unjust imprisonment in one of Stalin's jails; it was another matter to do so in Czechoslavakia, even under Dubcek, for who knew whether he would last. In this film a woman prisoner, harshly incarcerated, is suddenly released as unpredictably as she had been imprisoned; "Stalin is dead," she is told, and then, significantly, "Be sure to behave."

   
   

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   Without question, the best possible time and the last chance to really faithfully capture, in this case, the purely psychological nature of political imprisonment, which is part of our history, indeed any imprisonment of an innocent person who eventually begins (is forced) to question their innocence.
   
   Excellent filmmaking from people who may have struggled with the idea of whether anyone would ever see the film, yet gave it their all. Solan as always has heart, Lenka Reinerova undoubtedly still has vivid memories and Milenka Dvorska her natural beauty. All of which is reflected in the precision and timelessness of this short, whose atmosphere cannot be approached today, perhaps only glimpsed from afar, there are only a few films that come close, but to show the thought processes of the incarcerated, which are divided into before and after... the consequences of sudden imprisonment, the limitations of space, activities and thought, or even the cynically routine attitude of the prisoners ("Before, there was a trial with the Slansky gang, all hanged."), in twenty-two minutes, is the kind of art you have to make as a protest with limited possibilities to make it this good and impressive.
   
   Five hundred and twelve days later, she hears the child's laughter again...she smiles beautifully at him...the birds singing and indulges in her freedom, she can take as many steps as she wants, but she must not forget... behave, comrade.

   
   
   

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   The related text (upon which the film is based) by Lenka Reinerová (1916-2008) was published under the title "Alle Farben der Sonne und der Nacht" or "All Colors of the Sun and the Night" or "Todos los colores del sol y de la noche". Written in 1956-57, first issued in 1969 (immediately nearly all the copies destroyed), in 2001 reworked and reissued.
   
   "In her book, All the Colors of the Sun and the Night, the German-Czech-Jewish writer Lenka Reinerová describes her fifteen-month incarceration, most of it in solitary confinement, in Prague’s infamous Ruzyně prison, from where she was released without any further explanation when Stalin died in 1953. To keep herself occupied, she would pull out single strands of her hair and knot them into delicate chains. The guard, watching her from outside through the peephole in the door, would only discern the movement of her hands. Whenever he entered to find out what she had been doing, she would drop her miniature chains to the floor and her frustrated observer would storm out as dumbfounded as before. Similarly, her stories seem to be knotted from fine, elusive threads of memories, pulled from her head and quickly rendered invisible to the reader who wants to probe deeper, beyond the threshold of uncharted pain."

   3 years ago

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