In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an international success.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 11 min.
- Country, year
- Czechia, Slovakia, 1966
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Czech
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Jan Němec
- Screenplay
- Jan Němec, Ester Krumbachová
- Cinematography
- Jaromír Šofr
- Music
- Karel Mareš
- Cast
- Ivan Vyskocil, Jan Klusák, Jiri Nemec, Pavel Bosek, Karel Mareš
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- unknown - 1
Director
Jan Němec
Jan Němec was born in Prague in 1936. He was a part of a group of students to emerge from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) straight into an occupied Czechoslovakia. In response, the Czechoslovak New Wave was born. He presented his first feature and vision of the Holocaust in Diamonds of the Night (1965). In the West, one of director’s best known films is Report on the Party and the Guests (1966), a controversial, unflinching satire of communist ideals versus brutal reality. Later he created Martyrs of Love (1966), documentaries Oratorio for Prague (1968) and Late Night Talks with Mother (2001).
