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1. 6. 2025

FILM AND SOCIOLOGY

Selected films by director Pavel Koutecký (the exception is the film Olga by Miroslav Janek, thematically closely related to Citizen Havel) from the Film and Sociology production company are returning to distribution.

From 9 May 2024, the films Citizen Havel, Olga, Seekers of a Fixed Point, Where's the Truth?, The Sportsman, Oh, What a Struggle It Was and The Decline of Czechoslovakia in Parliament can be shown in cinemas again.

All films are now available for ordering in the DISFILM system through the distribution of krutón, z.s. or via e-mail program@krutonfilm.cz

CITIZEN HAVEL

Václav Havel's personality, which the film captures in a variety of situations - during political meetings and in moments in which the media do not normally present him, such as when he can get angry and swear at poorly tailored shirts. One of the most viewed Czech documentaries in cinemas and winner of the Český lev award for the best documentary in 2008.

 

OLGA

Václav Havel's closest and most reliable companion, a friend who doesn't spoil any joke, on the contrary, she invents it, a generous hostess, a passionate gambler and mushroom picker, a lover of nature, a sharp glossator, a brave and tireless dissident, a woman of substance, always with her feet on the ground and always her own.

 

SEEKERS OF A FIXED POINT

For twelve years, the film crew of the unique director and screenwriter Pavel Koutecký followed the fates of four men who made a significant impact on public life in November 1989 - musician and politician Michael Kocáb, former student leader Martin Mejstřík, student and future actor Krištof Rímský, and politician and former dissident Jan Ruml. 

 

WHERE'S THE TRUTH?

Double nationalization and triple totalitarianism surround the lives of two Czech Jews who found a new home in Chile during World War II. A capitalist and a communist find themselves in a fictional dispute over the true image of totalitarianism. But this lies above the historical experience of the individual, in the joint preparation of the Chilean production of the opera "Brundibár".

 

THE SPORTSMAN

Olympian with mental disability Bronislav Zemek is not a flower in a greenhouse, but an example of raw unbridled humanity. Roman Sejkot's collage of expressive photographs, which won the World Press Photo Award in 1994, looks into a disturbingly spontaneous, grotesquely free world without masks and social barriers.

 

OH, WHAT A STRUGGLE IT WAS

Documentary filmmaker and animator Pavel Koutecký's playful experimental film captures Prague during the campaign for the first free elections in 1990. Old political posters remind us of the atmosphere of faith in democracy and disgust with years of communist dictatorship.

 

THE END OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN PARLIAMENT

A film about what happened in the famous building between the National museum and the National theatre in the early 1990s. It is not easy to decide on the demise of a state, even if its end is inevitable. The film depicts a parliamentary community faced with an unusual task, capturing the uncertainty of fragile relationships, attempts at agreement and non-communication, and suspicions, tactics, work and theatrics.