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LIES MY FATHER TOLD ME Directed by JAN KADAR Screenplay by TED ALLAN
...ideal" conditions of the 1960s, freeing Czech directors from commercial constraint and political pressures as well, account in part for the emergence in Czechoslovakia of a dozen first class film directors of international recognition (winning two Oscars for The Shop on Mainstreet, by Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, and in 1968 for Mencl's Closely Watched Trains). When the Russian tanks rolled in and put an end to the Dubcek experiment of "socialism with a human face," Czech film directors, as well as many other people, were faced with the following choice: emigration abroad or "internal emigration." For most...
...alternative for those who refuse to be these kinds of "engineers of human souls" as comrade Stalin used to put it, was to leave the country and continue their film careers in the West, especially in America where the chances to make films were best (Forman, Passer, Kadar and Weiss now live in New York). All found themselves caught in the following dilemma: to continue the kind of work they used to do in Czechoslovakia that won them international fame or to adopt the style of filmmaking of their adopted country...
Shop on Main Street, by Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, was the first Czechoslovak film to create a bit stir in the United States. The warm reception it received in 1965 helped lead to the Museum of Modern Art's major festival of Czechoslovak films in 1967. Shop on Main street takes place in German-occupied Slovakia in 1942. A tragic story of a shopkeeper unable to fight German antisemitism. it is nevertheless, at times, whimsical and sentimental...
Forman will appear at the festival, as will Jiri Weiss (who began as a documentary film-maker), Kadar, and Ivan Passer...