The Sun in a Net
by Štefan Uher1h301962Czechoslovakia
Collection Golden era of Slovak CinemaA proposition by Slovenský filmový ústav - Slovak Film Institute
"The Sun in a Net" by Štefan Uher (1962) is widely considered to be the beginning of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
An authentic film in its depiction of ordinary lives, combining then-unacceptable social and political themes with sexual frankness and a freewheeling approach.
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Oldrich "Fajolo" Fajták, a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová, takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandfather.
Credits
- Directed by : Štefan Uher
- Screenplay : Alfonz Bednár
- Editor : Bedřich Voděrka
- Original score : Ilja Zeljenka
- Producing company : Filmové Studio Bratislava
- Image : Stanislav Szomolányi
- Son : Rudolf Pavlicek
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1962
- French release date : 15 février 1963
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Black and White
- Language : Slovak
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Mária Ridzoňová Ferenčuhová
about The Sun in a Net
of Štefan Uher
Bonus archives
- See special featureL'Âge d'or du cinéma slovaque
- See special featureLe Soleil dans le filet
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