FV059 Czech Film in Exile

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2001
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course will focus on the filmmakers who between 1939-1989 left Czechoslovakia, and esp. on those who emigrated after 1968. In this period several generations met in exile. Besides those who had emigrated earlier (after the Munich Pact of 1938, as well as after the Communist coup d'état of 1948), the wave of emigration caused by the soviet invasion of 1968 included the filmmakers of so called "Ur-wave" of the 1950s, the new wave of the 1960s, and also the young filmmakers who only made their independent debut in exile. Jana Boková, Otakar Votoček, Bernard Šafařík or Václav Reischl made their films in Western Europe, Miloš Forman, Ivan Passer or Vojtěch Jasný in North America. Literature: Voráč, Jiří: Český film v exilu. Dissertation, Masaryk University, Brno 1998. Assessment: essay (10 pages).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
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