synopsis
Sometimes, citizens of Czechoslovakia would have to spend several years waiting for their own car. Even so, the communist party hoped to use the newest model of the Škoda automobile to demonstrate the country’s affluence and state of technological advancement. The story of the Škoda Favorit shows how the company from Mladá Boleslav built not only reliable machines but also constructed the illusion that life in Czechoslovakia was good.
biography
Ivo Bystřičan (1980) studied documentary film, social policy, and sociology. In films such as Permanent Address – Prague (2008), Copper Age (2010) and Byeway (2014), he contemplates the problems faced by the world today within the broader socio-political, economic and environmental context. Currently he works on the multidiscipinary Czech-Icelandic project Future Landscapes, feature documentary Climategeddon and docu-serie about crisis management in history with Czech Academy of Science.more about film
| director: | Ivo Bystřičan |
| producer: | Dušan Mulíček |
| script: | Ivo Bystřičan |
| photography: | Jiří Strnad |
| editing: | Adam Patyk |
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Film at festival
| premiere type: | World Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2021 |
| section: | Into History |
| language: | Czech |
| subtitles: | No Subtitle |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Ivo Bystřičan |
| original title: | Industrie - Soukolí normalizace |
| country: | Czech Republic |
| year: | 2021 |
| running time: | 26 min. |
