Kája Saudek
Art department · 1935 – 2015 · Prague, Czechoslovakia
Karel "Kája" Saudek was a Czech comics illustrator and graphic artist. He was crowned the "King of Czech comic books", from the late 1960s he was considered one of the top artists of Czech comics. He and his twin brother, photographer Jan Saudek, were/are holocaust survivors.
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Movie4.8DocumentaryKarel Vachek’s graduate film offers us a documentary essay which is both a light-hearted and aggressive little piece and also a parody of investigative film journalism. The Strážnice folk festival, backed by the cultural Party apparatus of the time, for years had little to commend itself to authentic folklore. In the film the event assumes the form of a bizarre stage spectacle with almost surrealistic elements that Vachek reinforces with unconventional approaches (commentary appearing as titles on screen, singing, declamations into the camera, feature etudes, the fusion of news coverage and fiction). The result is a stirring film collage depicting various characters, from crowd-pleasers, Easter egg decorators, kitsch artists and peddlers, to museologists and local residents, all of whom come up against the eccentric "identical” twin reporters Karel and Jan Saudek and a bored actress who appears as an extra. Using their special blend of irony and wit, they present us with the sad truth.
- Movie8.0Documentary
A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can’t find a bottle-opener, and Ivan Diviš makes observations about his own funeral. This is the Czech Republic in the late 90s, as detailed in Karel Vachek’s documentary.
Bohemia docta aneb Labyrint světa a lusthauz srdce (Božská komedie)
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
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