Domy z panelů
/
预制板公寓
/
Blocks of Flats
director:
Jiří Menzel
playwright:
Jiří Menzel
/
Jan Svoboda
actor:
Alexander Postler
genre:
Documentary
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Short Film
region:
捷克斯洛伐克
language:
Czech
length: 6m
release date: 1959
IMDb: tt0172344
Domy z panelů
Overview
A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolizing the obsolete past, alternate with shots of construction sites for new prefabricated apartment buildings. In spite of certain unavoidable propagandistic overtones added by the director, it is notable as the beginning of his search for a “dramaturgy of colors.”
An early rare documentary by Jiří Menzel