Out of the Past 2018 / Bílý ráj / Czechoslovakia 1924
The social melodrama White Paradise, with its classic story and advanced technical quality, was a huge success at the box office in 1924, thanks in part to the involvement of Der starke Vierer (the strong four), one of the most distinctive creative teams to come out of early Czechoslovak cinema: director and actor Karel Lamač, cameraman Otto Heller, actress Anny Ondra and, later on, scripter Václav Wasserman. White Paradise will be screened at the festival with live musical accompaniment.
The heroine of this social melodrama, set in a desolate region “where people were born with solitude in their hearts”, is the naive orphan Nina, who stumbles upon an escaped prisoner intent on seeing his dying mother one last time. With its classic story and advanced technical quality, this low-budget picture was a hit with audiences both at home and abroad. Its success was due in part to the involvement of Der starke Vierer (the strong four), one of the most distinctive creative teams to come out of early Czechoslovak cinema: director and actor Karel Lamač, cameraman Otto Heller, actress Anny Ondra and, later on, scripter Václav Wasserman. White Paradise will be screened at the festival with live musical accompaniment.
70 min / Black & white, 35 mm
Director Karel Lamač
/ Screenplay Karel Lamač, Martin Frič
/ Dir. of Photography Otto Heller
/ Production Kalos
/ Cast Karel Lamač, Vladimír Majer, Anny Ondráková, Anny Ondráková, Josef Rovenský
/ Sales Národní filmový archiv
Karel Lamač (1897, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary – 1952, Hamburg, West Germany). Selected filmography: The Good Soldier Schweik (1926), Imperial and Royal Field Marshal (1930), You Don’t Know Hadimrška (1931), Ducháček Will Fix It (1938), Lantern (1938), He Stood at the Till… (1939)
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