The Second Republic
Aleš Koudela / Czech Republic / 2018 / International Premiere / 52 min.
synopsis
The Second Republic was relatively short-lived. But those few months were one of the most dramatic and important periods in our history. In 1938 in Munich, all the ideals and values on which Czechoslovakia had been built came crumbling down. Czech society ceased to believe in democracy and began to admire authoritarian fascist governments. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of refugees fled the occupied Sudetenland for what remained of the country, but nobody wanted to take them in. The media was subjected to censorship, and an aggressive strain of anti-Semitism appeared among the Czech population. And on top of it all, there were further territorial demands by Germany, Poland, and Hungary, and separatist tendencies in Slovakia.
more about film
| director: | Aleš Koudela |
| producer: | Lenka Poláková |
| script: | Aleš Koudela, Martin Pekárek |
| photography: | Tomáš Nikel, David Rojíček |
| editing: | Jaromír Vašek |
| sound: | Petr Pokorný, Jakub Krajíček |
contact
ČESKÁ TELEVIZE / Lenka Poláková / Dvořákova 18 / 728 20 / Ostrava / Czech Republic / lenka.polakova@ceskatelevize.cz / www.ceskatelevize.cz
Film at festival
| premiere type: | International Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2018 |
| section: | Czech Television Documentaries |
| language: | Czech |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Aleš Koudela |
| original title: | Druhá republika |
| country: | Czech Republic |
| year: | 2018 |
| running time: | 52 min. |
