Long Live the Republic!
Director: Karel Kachyňa
1965 / 134min / DCP
Mocked by his better-off peers and brutalized by his father, 12-year-old Oldřich, nicknamed “Shorty,” finds refuge in fantasy and memories of better days—but a grim reality is growing ever closer to his home, the Moravian village of Nesovice, as German occupying forces are rolled back by the advancing Soviets, and villagers scurry to cover up their acts of collaboration and compromise. Signifying a shift in representation of the wartime experience attributable to the relaxing of censorship in the years leading up to the Prague Spring of 1968, both the retreating Nazis and the liberators arriving from the east are regarded with justified apprehension by Olin in this lyrical drama, strikingly lensed by first-time cinematographer Jaromír Šofr.
Distributor: Národní filmový archiv
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