Word: czechoslovakians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kleist likes the "cool simplicity" and "clean typography" of Scandinavian jackets. Praising East European designs for their "unpretentious charm," he points to the "subtle and original" calligraphy of Czechoslovakian and Hungarian jackets. Poland has no competing publishing firms to vie for public favor with attractive jackets, but the State publishing monopoly nevertheless employs outstanding artists who have made Poland a leader in jacket design. Russian jackets, on the other hand, tend to be "stodgy and conventional." Kleist says that the lack of jackets on Chinese books is probably due to China's paper shortage...
...Shop on High Street, made last year by Czechoslovakian Co-Directors Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, took festivalgoers in New York back to the year 1942, when the Jews of a little Slovakian town incredulously learned that Hitler's pogrom had begun. Shop starts as a warm and well played village comedy. Tono Brtko (Josef Króner) is a simple and straightforward carpenter in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia who hates his brother-in-law, the local Gauleiter, but accepts a supposedly lucrative plum from him-appointment as "Aryan manager" and ideological overseer of a Jewish button shop...
...unpublished writer (Dirk Bogarde). "I'd be a lot happier if he'd been to a decent school," says Morley's aide in dour appraisal of the new man. Bogarde believes that he is a trade representative sent to pick up a message from a Czechoslovakian glass factory. Instead he picks up the Communist intelligence chief's voluptuous daughter (Sylva Koscina), one of those girls to whom defection and seduction are practically synonymous. Of course, the two fall in love and run into difficulties that lead them from bed to glassworks to a public swimming pool...
These and the other masterpieces in the Hradčany may only be the first of many new finds. The Czechoslovakian Communist government declared all of the country's 4,200 castles to be state property, and almost none have yet had their collections examined. Says Neumann eagerly: "I myself know where there are two completely authentic Van Dycks. They've simply been hanging there all these years with nobody paying any attention to them." Even in a people's republic, some good can still come from nobility...
...movie theatres show only Russian, Czechoslovakian, Hungarian, East German, and Bulgarian films. Lately, due to lack of public attendance, they have had to loosen up and show French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish films, always mixed in with news reels of government propoganda which no one applauds and which only serve to corroborate popular aversion to the government...