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| Moscow. In her FIPRESCI awarded film An Earthy Paradise for the Eyes (Zemský ráj to na pohled) Czech director Irena Pavlásková "depicts the banal yet extraordinary life of an attractive, vital woman, Marta, her two adolescent daughters, Majda and the younger Gábina, and their "fathers". The plot covers a critical decade of the recent history, starting on the eve of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and ending with the persecution of Charter 77 signatories. The tale is totally apolitical at first, but dueto Martha’s ex-husband and her further partners, gradually her entire family gets involved in the dissident movement." (Festival catalogue) Details |
Karlovy Vary. The Critics' Prize has unanimously been awarded to the film Hitler in Hollywood by Belgium director Frédéric Sojcher for, as the jury argued, "its ingenious mockumentary approach to the history and present of European cinema, and to the growing threat of the Hollywood ever-expanding domination". The film, writes jury president Christina Stojanova, is "unique in its eclectic genre, mixing fun with seriousness; the reality of the French cinema of the 1930s with that of a skillfully put together ficticious plot of a Hollywood conspiracy against European cinema..." Details 
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