All My Good Countrymen
All My Good Countrymen
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One of the wonders of the Czech New Wave, All My Good Countrymen is also one of the least-known films from this miraculous era of Czech filmmaking. The reason is obvious: completed barely before the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, it was immediately banned and never shown. Despite this, the film won the Special Jury Prize of the Cannes Film Festival, and stylistically is a work of great lyricism, humor and originality. It weaves magical--and very funny--stories about a group of characters in a small Moravian village, immediately following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948. "The film and the milieu it so precisely evokes are not so much nostalgic as they are powerfully remembered and irrevocably lost....All My Good Countrymen reflects the curdled fury of a former true believer" (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice). In Czech with English subtitles. Vojtech Jasny---Czechoslovakia---1968---114 mins.

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   | Dino#2

This is a gem! Although I don’t have personal experience on the time and place of this film, the story and characters ring so true. The scene /settings and storyline are so natural and unhurried that I was never distracted by other motivations of the director Vojtech Jasný to tell this tale. What a great study of human nature during a time of major political change.

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   | Daniel#7

An interesting film from the Prague Spring period in Czechoslovakia. The pace is a bit leisurely, the story line often rather obvious, and overall the characters don't generate much passion or intensity. But the film is convincing in capturing the atmosphere of a small European town, and the local rivalries and jealousies that can develop there. Worth seeing.

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   | Brian#5

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