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Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in one room in the apartment of Jana's divorced mother and her widowed grandmother. A few years later, the family moved from Prague to Liberec where Petr found a job and a little house for the family. When Honza was born, his father began writing a family chronicle and he has continued to do so for 37 years. "Private Universe" show not only the life of one ordinary family, but also how the Czech society has changed in last four decades. Who are we, where do we come from and where do we go? (Verleiher-Text)
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As for the son Honza, it shouldn’t jump his childhood and adolescence by summing up ten years in two sentences and begin to focus on him at the age of thirty. If it was meant to record the ups and downs of a regular family against the background of Czech(oslovak) history of the past forty years, it would have to go into much greater depth (impact of post-revolution changes etc.) and not to just cut in a couple of New Year’s Speeches and a little reading of diaries, when the family doesn’t have the chance to say anything more interesting than “such and such a year: our first car". But this way, this is only about our bard Karel Gott and his typical “little-Czechness", meaning he would have even sung Happy Birthday to Hitler, if the era demanded. So what was Třeštíková trying to prove? Hard to say, but the result is identical to a visit to see elderly in-laws, who without fail immediately reach for the family album as soon as you appear at the door.
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Gagarin, Karel Gott, and other Czech families through the eyes of Helena Třeštíková. This time the probe is all the more interesting because Hela captured the story of the first-born son of her lifelong friend. Private Universe then follows in an arc Helen's debut Miracle, which originally captured only Jan's birth and the transformation of his mother during her first pregnancy. Helena was very cute at 26. In the finale, she needed to make sure we understood her leitmotifs with Gott and Gagarin, precisely because it was such a personal statement.
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Eine relativ uninteressante und eintönige Bearbeitung. Der ganze Film dreht sich um das einschläfernde Vorlesen des Vaters oder die Beobachtung des ältesten Sohnes, der nur ein Faulpelz ist und nicht viel zu bieten hat. Es hat mich gestört, dass der Mutter der Familie bis zum Ende des Films nur sehr wenig Platz eingeräumt wurde und die Töchter gar nicht zu existieren schienen. Ich mag Zeitraffer-Dokumentarfilme über gewöhnliche Menschen, ich mag ihre Geschichten, egal welcher Art, aber Private Universe hat für mich insgesamt nicht funktioniert.
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