Movie

Moravian Hellas

★ 5.5(4)196433m

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Director: Karel Vachek
Release date: 1964-01-01
Runtime: 33m
Language: Czech
Status: Released
Country: Czechoslovakia
Studio: Krátký film Praha

About Moravian Hellas

Moravian Hellas is a 1964 movie in the Documentary genre, directed by Karel Vachek, starring Josef Lebánek, Jan Saudek and Kája Saudek. It has a runtime of 33 minutes. It holds an average rating of 5.5/10 from 4 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Moravian Hellas in Brazil — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

Karel Vachek’s graduate film offers us a documentary essay which is both a light-hearted and aggressive little piece and also a parody of investigative film journalism. The Strážnice folk festival, backed by the cultural Party apparatus of the time, for years had little to commend itself to authentic folklore. In the film the event assumes the form of a bizarre stage spectacle with almost surrealistic elements that Vachek reinforces with unconventional approaches (commentary appearing as titles on screen, singing, declamations into the camera, feature etudes, the fusion of news coverage and fiction). The result is a stirring film collage depicting various characters, from crowd-pleasers, Easter egg decorators, kitsch artists and peddlers, to museologists and local residents, all of whom come up against the eccentric "identical” twin reporters Karel and Jan Saudek and a bored actress who appears as an extra. Using their special blend of irony and wit, they present us with the sad truth.