Directors
This director created the surreal feminist satire Daisies.
Who is Věra Chytilová?
This 1966 film follows two rebellious girls pulling anarchic pranks.
What is Daisies?
This term describes re-established hardline Communist control after 1968.
What is Normalization?
Name the term describing a political ideology aiming to eliminate class divisions through collective ownership.
What is Communism?
This director made Closely Watched Trains, one of the best-known Czech New Wave films.
Who is Jiří Menzel?
This film tells the story of a young worker at a train station during WWII.
What is Closely Watched Trains?
This military alliance led by the Soviet Union sent troops into Czechoslovakia.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Identify the concept describing a government with centralized authority that suppresses opposition and controls society.
What is Totalitarianism?
This Oscar-winning director made Loves of a Blonde.
Who is Miloš Forman?
Name all the films we talked about
What is
Daisies (1966)
Intimate Lighting (1965)
?
This superpower invaded in 1968 to stop reforms and restore control.
What is the Soviet Union?
This system advocates social or public ownership of key industries while still allowing some government structure and variation in practice.
What is Socialism?
Name some codes of making a Czech new wave film
Codes:
Fragmented storytelling, jump cuts,
Mix of documentary and fiction styles
Discontinuity editing
Cinematography: focus on the aesthetics within the frame
Unpredictable editing/storytelling
Naturalist settings
This director was a costume designer, stage designer, author and director. She is known for her contributions to Czech New Wave cinema in the 1960s
Who is Ester Krumbachová?
This political reform period allowed artistic freedom before being crushed in 1968.
What is the Prague Spring?
Dubček attempted to create a form of socialism that combined liberal reforms with Communist rule, known by this phrase.
What is “socialism with a human face”?