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KARLOVY VARY INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Drama - Completed 1964


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Karlovy Vary IFF 2023
Out of the Past
    • Year of production
    • 1964
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • CZECH REPUBLIC
    • Duration
    • 86 mn
    • Synopsis
    • Together with Jaromil Jireš’s The Joke, this directorial feature debut by Evald Schorm is the most incisive attempt to capture the all-pervasive moral enervation of Czech society in the early 1960s, when party bureaucracy prevailed and ideals simply became empty phrases. The victim here isn’t an opponent of the regime, but a loyal young labourer affiliated with the Socialist Youth Movement, who experiences a growing sense of painful disenchantment with the communist cause. This penetrating, psychological character study, heightened by a sober acting performance, renders the film a timeless statement of blind faith which, followed by disillusionment, leads to a destructive existential crisis. The film will be screened in its new, digitally restored version.