CONTENTS


Lecture 1 - Introduction to the history of Czech cinema, The silent era: Gustav Machatý: Erotikon
(1929)


Lecture 2 - The sound era 1930-1945 – Martin Frič: Kristian (1939)


Lecture 3 - The post-war era and socialist realism - Alfréd Radok: Distant Journey (Daleká cesta,
1949)


Lecture 4 – Vojtěch Jasný: When the Cat Comes (a.k.a. Cassandra Cat - Až přijde kocour, 1963


Lecture 5 - Czech historic movies between great epics and art: František Vláčil: Marketa Lazarová
(1967)


Lecture 6 - The golden sixties: an introduction to Czech new wave Věra Chytilová: Daisies
(Sedmikrásky, 1966)


Lecture 7 - Miloš Forman: The Firemen’s Ball (Hoří, má panenko, 1967)


Lecture 8 - Juraj Herz: The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol, 1968)


Lecture 9 - The Genre Movies of the Sixties – musicals, comedies, fairy tales, detective stories
(fragments)


Lecture 10 - A time of servants: the normalization period and after


Lecture 11 -  The velvet revolution and after