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...economy, Hungary scarcely differs from other East bloc nations. The state owns nearly 100% of the means of production. But Kadar's N.E.M. permits an unusual degree of flexibility. Factory managers, while gearing output to the central plan, can innovate to improve their product and enhance its consumer appeal. They are even allowed, within discreet limits, to compete with one another on price and delivery dates. As an incentive for managers and employees to design, manufacture and market high-quality goods, the party's economic planners often use an old capitalistic ploy: material rewards in the form...
Lies My Father Told Me. My friends all cried during this Canadian "I remember Grandpa" tale by Jan Kadar, set in a Jewish ghetto. Gramps rode the streets in a horse-drawn wagon, selling and buying rags, clothes, and bottles, and teaching his grandson, the narrator, to be simple, pious, etc. I found it lumpy and mediocre, with one of the most puerile scores ever written, but the atmosphere is pleasant, and you might sniffle a little when they take away Grandpa's horse and it kills him. Nasty, bad people...
...show begins Friday with Jan Kadar's film, A Shop on the Main Street, which won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Martin Rochek, who helped get the festival together, says Radcliffe chipped in some money to help out, and they're hoping Kadar can show up for a screening and questions, but it's unlikely. On the double bill with The Shop is Long Live the Republic, a film about Czech life during and after World War II. The show begins at 7, in Hilles Library...
...Communist and Socialist parties of no fewer than 104 countries were on hand in Moscow to help the Soviets celebrate their three score years in power. Present for the party, probably the biggest in Moscow's history, were such Communist all-stars as Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Edward Gierek and East Germany's Erich Honecker. In the Kremlin's starkly modern Palace of Congresses, President Leonid Brezhnev rose to keynote the festivities with a 90-minute report on the state of the Soviet Union and the world. As always, he had quite...
Czech Director Jan Kadar (The Shop on Main Street) handles all his vignettes dryly, distantly, without the slightest excess of emotion. Normally such discipline, especially in an age of over wrought movies, would be a matter for applause. In a film that is so predictable, however, a little excess is called for. We need to feel a touch of genuine desperation in this slum or of craziness in the behavior of its inhabitants. Some how the Duddy Kravitz ambience has been infused with the spirit of Walton's Mountain, and the result is a bland respectability−safe, pleasant...