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Date: 25 January 2023 (ended)
Time: 17:00 |
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Category: Film
Section: BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: THE FRINGES OF CZECH AND SLOVAK CINEMA, LONGING FOR ANOTHER WORLD |
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Location: Teatro Miela
Piazza Luigi Amedeo Duca degli Abruzzi, 3, 34132 Trieste TS |
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SVĚTLO PRONIKÁ TMOU
(La luce fende le tenebre / The Light Penetrates the Dark)
Otakar Vávra
Cecoslovacchia / Czechoslovakia
1930, 35mm, b-n / b-w, 4’
film muto, senza didascalie / silent film, no intertitles
Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Otakar Vávra, Jaroslav R. Vávra. Fotografia / Photography: František Pilát. Montaggio / Editing: Otakar Vávra. Produzione / Produced by: Legiafilm.
Otakar Vávra and František Pilát’s short film represents one of the most explicit encounters between cinema and the historical avant-garde in Czechoslovakia. The film captures the luministic transformations of Zdeněk Pešánek’s kinetic sculpture for the Prague Electric Company, located in the center of the Bohemian metropolis, the outcome of the artist’s plastic research and his encounter with the Devětsil avant-garde group and its theorist Karel Teige.
Otakar Vávra
Director, screenwriter, Otakar Vávra was born in 1911 in Hradec Králové, in Bohemia. Since the 1950s he has taught directing at FAMU in Prague, among his students many leading figures of the Czechoslovak New Wave. He died in Prague in 2011.
filmografia scelta / selected filmography
1930 Světlo proniká tmou (The Light Penetrates the Dark) cm / sf 1938 Cech panen kutnohorských (La corporazione delle vergini di Kutná Hora / The Merry Wives) 1954 Jan Hus 1965 Zlatá reneta (La renetta d’oro); Premi / Awards: San Sebastian IFF – Conchiglia d’oro / Golden Seashell 1966 Romance pro křídlovku (Romance for Bugle / Romanza per flicorno); Premi / Awards: Moscow IFF – Premio speciale d’argento / Special Silver Prize 1970 Kladivo na carodejnice (Una vergine per l’inquisitore); Premi / Awards: Pilsen FF – Martin pescatore d’oro / Golden Kingfisher 1972 Dny zrady (Days of Betrayal / I giorni del tradimento); Premi / Awards: Moscow IFF – Diploma 1976 Osvobození Prahy (La liberazione di Praga) 1980 Temné slunce (Sole nero) 2003 Moje Praha doc.
