I think This is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship,
Comrade!  International Romances in Czechoslovak Co-productions
(Those Born in 1921 /1957/, May Stars /1959/ and Interrupted
Song /1960/)

a 2012

I think This is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship, Comrade! International Romances in Czechoslovak Co-productions (Those Born in 1921 /1957/, May Stars /1959/ and Interrupted Song /1960/)

SKOPAL, Pavel

Základní údaje

Originální název

I think This is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship, Comrade! International Romances in Czechoslovak Co-productions (Those Born in 1921 /1957/, May Stars /1959/ and Interrupted Song /1960/)

Autoři

SKOPAL, Pavel (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Workshop Der Lange Weg nach Hause. Ein filmhistorisches Symposium über das Heimkehren aus dem Krieg, 2012

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Konferenční abstrakt

Obor

Písemnictví, masmedia, audiovize

Stát vydavatele

Německo

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/12:00058572

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

socialist cinema; co-productions; romance films; prisoners of war

Štítky

rivok

Změněno: 30. 10. 2015 20:12, doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

For international co-productions in general, and for the Czechoslovak co-productions during the 1950s in particular, border-crossing romances represent essential nourishment for the narrative engine. I have chosen the three headlined Czechoslovak co-productions – which had been the only three co-productions situated to the period of World War II and produced in Czechoslovakia till 1960 – to point out how much were the love plots determined by the ideological lines separating the actual or potential lovers. In Those Born in 1921, a Czech young man drawn to Germany for forced labour falls in love with a German nurse. He denies participate in his friends escape to home and elects to stay with his love instead. She is arrested, however, and the Czech guy is left with a German communist, a member of resistance movement. May Stars signals a romance between a Czech girl and a young Russian officer who just liberated her village – a possibility of romance is suggested just to be erased afterwards together with the officers home address. Just the love between a Slovak soldier, serving first in the German army and then in the Czechoslovak Army Corps, and a Georgian nurse is guided to the happy end: the Slovak, first imprisoned by the Soviet army, proves his loyalty and bravery and substitutes his Georgian friend – and the nurses brother – who was killed on the Western front. I want to argue that the stories of love between members of two nations was influenced by the concepts which were inevitably dragged into the field of potential interpretations: collaboration, betrayal, gratitude, and, above all, the dynamic of the relation between two nations as occupied, liberated, doomed, redeemed, colonised, (un)equal.

Návaznosti

GAP409/11/0586, projekt VaV

Název: Komparativní výzkum filmové kultury ve východním bloku, 1945-1970

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Komparativní výzkum filmové kultury ve východním bloku, 1945-1970

Citovat

SKOPAL, Pavel. I think This is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship, Comrade! International Romances in Czechoslovak Co-productions (Those Born in 1921 /1957/, May Stars /1959/ and Interrupted Song /1960/). In Workshop Der Lange Weg nach Hause. Ein filmhistorisches Symposium über das Heimkehren aus dem Krieg. 2012.

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SKOPAL, Pavel. I think This is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship, Comrade! International Romances in Czechoslovak Co-productions (Those Born in 1921 /1957/, May Stars /1959/ and Interrupted Song /1960/). In \textit{Workshop Der Lange Weg nach Hause. Ein filmhistorisches Symposium über das Heimkehren aus dem Krieg}. 2012.

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