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Tomáš Klvaňa, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Slavoj Žižek, Ivan Martin Jirous, Václav Moravec, Jan Vyčítal, Miloš Zeman, Ladislav Smoljak, Jiří Lábus (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Six years after the provocative documentary “Czech Dream” was greeted by enthusiastic public reception and a number of awards from around the world, a new full-length film from directors Vit Klusák and Filip Remunda, called “Czech Peace”, is coming to domestic cinemas on May 6. Like “Czech Dream”, this one will also be a documentary comedy, though this time the subject of the film is the controversy around the plan to build an American radar base in the Brdy Mountains. “With larger-than-life humor, ‘Czech Peace’ goes behind the public images to expose all the absurd conflicts around it. Everyone has heard or read about the radar, but we were there where it was happening with a camera to record the unexpected,” the creators explain. Despite or precisely because the American government cancelled the plan, the film still speaks to a current topic. “We believe this is a comedy about the character and quality of Czech democracy twenty years after the revolution,” they say. “The radar is mainly a phenomenon that divided Czech society. Top politicians and ordinary people speak side by side in the film. The first of these groups typically are recorded by history, though without the second group there would be no history.” In the film you will see Barack Obama, George Bush, Mirek Topolánek, Tomáš Klvaňa, Jan Neoral, Ivan M. Jirous, peace activists and the residents of Brdy, as well as a domesticated wild-boar named Jonaš. You will visit the Oval Office in the White House, the Pentagon and the clearings and woods around the Brdy elevation spot point 718. “It is a relief to laugh at self-centered politicians and at one’s own self,” Vit Klusák and Filip Remunda comment. (Verleiher-Text)
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Using ridiculous boorish people as example, the film perfectly describes a current (and not only current) Czech bad habit: to have an opinion on everything. Everybody thinks something about everything and they say it out loud, even though they actually know fuck all. Czech Peace gives room to laugh at those who deserve it, but unfortunately, as a viewer, all that concentrated stupidity ruined my afternoon. In any case, remarkably good.
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Klusák und Remunda können viel überzeugender sein als der notorische Manipulator Moore, doch leider unterliegen auch sie manchmal spürbar der Voreingenommenheit und verlieren die wärmende Einsicht, aus welcher alle Beteiligten wie verzweifelte Demagogen, Vollpfosten und Komiker hervorgehen ... außer der Rolle des Magor (Irrer), denn der hat natürlich wie immer Recht. Tolles Material für eine Ideologiekritik - denn davor strotzt geradezu dieses leere Stück Land, ungeachtet dessen, ob die Militärpolizei darüber plappert oder die Waldelfen von Greenpeace herumtrotten. Und Magors soziologische Evaluierung des tschechischen Volkes ... in Granit meißeln.
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Und fertig. Ärger, Streit, eine peinliche Situation, Fernsehnachrichten, Zeitungsartikel, Festlieder und -videoclips, Demonstrationen, Vergleiche, Erinnerungen, Voraussagen, Arschkriecherei… Schließlich ist das Ganze abgeschwollen. Den Radar gibt es nicht. Und es ist der erträumte Frieden eingetreten. Eine tolle Komödie, die wirklich passiert ist. 100%
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A nice example of how we're ideologically diverse, which is good because everyone has the right to their opinion, but it's a bit sad to see people standing by their opinion without even knowing why. But that's also part of it. People have the right to an opinion, even if they don't really know why, but it's probably important to have one. It's up to you what opinion you form.
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