CONTENTS


Lecture 1 - Introduction. A general view to the history of Czech cinema, periodization. The silent
era. Gustav Machatý: Erotikon (1929), Extase (1933).


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


Lecture 3 - The post-war era and socialist realism. Martin Frič: The Emperor's Baker - The Baker's
Emperor (1951)


Lecture 4 – The holocaust theme in Czech cinema. Alfred Radok: Distant Journey (1949)


Lecture 5 - Czech historic movies: Otakar Vávra: The Hussite Trilogy (1954–1956); František Vláčil:
Marketa Lazarová (1967)


Lecture 6 - Masters of animation: Jiří Trnka, Jan Švankmajer. Karel Zeman and films for children


Lecture 7 - The beginning of the „thaw“. Vojtěch Jasný: When the Cat Comes (Až přijde kocour, 1963)


Lecture 8 - An introduction to Czech New Wave – Věra Chytilová: Daisies (Sedmikrásky, 1966)


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


Lecture 10 - A time of servants: the normalization period


Lecture 11 - The velvet revolution and after