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...show as is a happening. At the film, each member of the audience functions as a separate Caesar, deciding electronically which way the Tongue-in-Czech story should progress (TIME, May 5). The film itself is little more than an oddball triangle carried to a screwball extreme, but Director Josef Svoboda demonstrates his flair for Sennett-style comedy in a rousing custard-pie and fire-engine finale...
...lawyers, businessmen, government officials and military men in the years of the Marshall Plan and NATO. Few of the authors had any first hand knowledge of Communism. Few had much experience of the political left. None had much experience of Asia. All were reacting to the current reality of Josef Stalin. To some extent it was a doctrine recited to justify the political and legislative action -- alliances, military appropriations, economic and military aid -- which the proponents thought necessary. There is nothing especially remarkable in the discovery that a doctrine so contrived failed to stand the test of history. History...
...doctrinaire Communism. As the film's central figure, Jan Kačer plays a slogan-spouting, blockheaded factory worker -a model product of the Stalinist old regime. Representing the newer, more relaxed style of Communism are his cheeky blonde mistress (Jana Brejchová) and an impudent young cynic (Josef Abrhám), who refuses to echo Kačer's unquestioning beliefs. A puritanical bore who turns off friends and fellow factory workers, Kačer is beaten in a beer hall by resentful colleagues, ultimately comes to realize that his pompous pronunciamentos can no longer...
...past, giving sense impressions that made the pictures considerably more than the sum of their parts. Jaromil Jireš, 31, who made The First Cry three years ago, tries the same technique with moderately interesting results. A young woman is awakened by labor pains. She arouses her husband (Josef Abrhám) and begins to recall their first meeting, the affair that followed, the marriage. Abrhám, a television repairman, takes her to the hospital, then goes on his rounds, gazing at the young with the fresh insight of a new father. In one sequence, as he watches schoolchildren...
...years as chief of the Deutsche Bank, West Germany's largest, Hermann Josef Abs became the most distinguished figure in German finance. Only last year, no less an authority than David Rockefeller, president of the U.S.'s globe-spanning Chase Manhattan Bank, called him "the leading banker in the world." Suave, witty and self-assured, Abs was more than a banker: a confidant and consultant to monarchs and politicians, he became an unofficial ambassador to the world's financial centers and the undisputed éminence grise of German business...