29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk Under the Influence of Griffith’s Intolerance and Tati’s Mr. Hulot’s Holiday or The Foundation and Doom of Czechoslovakia

Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk Under the Influence of Griffith’s Intolerance and Tati’s Mr. Hulot’s Holiday or The Foundation and Doom of Czechoslovakia

Karel Vachek / Czech Republic / 2006 / 147 min.


synopsis

A dog’s funeral becomes part of a chain of absurd events including a tomato ketchup battle, a reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz and a motorbike show. Its common denominator is the commercial interest of sponsors and big buisness, the ambivalent winners of privatization and participants of numerous coruption affairs. Vachek debates corruption and environmental disaster, but insists that there is an alternative. Against the mass of „pseudoevents“ is the independent techno-party CzechTekk, raided by the police despite the fact that it was entirely law-abiding, whose participants are Vachek believes to be the new „unionists“.

more about film

director: Karel Vachek
script: Karel Vachek
photography: Karel Slach
editing: Renata Pařezová
music: Milan Závič Smrčka
sound: Libor Sedláček

Film at festival

festival edition:2020
section:Vachek 80
language:Czech
subtitles:English
colour:Colour

Info

director:Karel Vachek
original title:Záviš, kníže pornofolku pod vlivem Griffithovy Intolerance a Tatiho prázdnin pana Hulota aneb Vznik a zánik Československa (1918 – 1992)
country:Czech Republic
year:2006
running time:147 min.

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Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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