Czechoslovak Filmmakers Vladimir Sis and Josef Vanis in Tibet :
A Unique Visual and Textual Documentary from 1954

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Czechoslovak Filmmakers Vladimir Sis and Josef Vanis in Tibet : A Unique Visual and Textual Documentary from 1954

BĚLKA, Luboš

Basic information

Original name

Czechoslovak Filmmakers Vladimir Sis and Josef Vanis in Tibet : A Unique Visual and Textual Documentary from 1954

Name in Czech

Českoslovenští filmaři Vladimír Sis a Josef Vanis v Tibetu : Unikátní vizuální a textový dokument z roku 1954

Authors

BĚLKA, Luboš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Fifteenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 7-13 July, Paris, France, 2019

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

France

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00111975

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords (in Czech)

Českoslovenští filmaři; Vladimír Sis; Josef Vanis; Tibet; vizuální a textový dokument

Keywords in English

Czechoslovak Filmmakers; Vladimir Sis; Josef Vanis; Tibet; Visual and Textual Documentary

Abstract

V originále

The first and only western visitors (although coming from the Eastern Soviet Bloc) to Lhasa after a three-year gap following the visit of Americans, father and son Lowell Thomas (summer 1949) and Austrians Heinrich Harrer and Peter Aufschnaiter (December 1950) were Czechoslovak army filmmakers Vladimir Sis (7 July 1925 – 7 September 2001) and Josef Vanis (6 January 1927 – 12 February 2009), who stayed in Tibet for ten months in years 1954-1955. They shot an hours documentary film in cooperation with the Peoples Liberation Army Film Studio (established on 1 August, 1952, in 1956, it was renamed August First Film Studio), which premiered in 1956 as On the Road through Tibet (original title: Cesta vede do Tibetu) and obtained an award at the Venice festival. The film captured the construction of a strategic military road from Ya-an to Lhasa, which was mainly built by Chinese soldiers and workers but also Tibetans. Vanis and Sis also published books with a number of photographs and they made TV coverages. Due to the dispute between Beijing and Moscow in 1959, this topic became a taboo in Czechoslovakia until the fall of communism in 1989. Besides these official published outcomes of their documentary work in Tibet and China their family archives contain unpublished private travelogues, correspondence and many photographic negatives and positives. Using both these information sources, but primarily thanks to the not yet known literary and photographic records, the large and deep background of their expedition may be examined for the very first time.

Links

MUNI/A/1053/2018, interní kód MU

Name: Nové výzkumné metody v religionistickém výzkumu (Acronym: NOVYMREV)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

BĚLKA, Luboš. Czechoslovak Filmmakers Vladimir Sis and Josef Vanis in Tibet : A Unique Visual and Textual Documentary from 1954. In Fifteenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 7-13 July, Paris, France. 2019.

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BĚLKA, Luboš. Czechoslovak Filmmakers Vladimir Sis and Josef Vanis in Tibet : A Unique Visual and Textual Documentary from 1954. In \textit{Fifteenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 7-13 July, Paris, France}. 2019.

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