Special Screenings 2021 / Rekonstrukce okupace / Czech Republic, Slovak Republic 2021
Documentary filmmaker Jan Šikl has spent many years seeking out and collecting private film archives. In this way, he came across several hours of footage showing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Exactly fifty-three years later, on August 21, 2021, historical memory awakens from a long slumber with this reconstruction of the occupation, a cinematic adventure of a truly archeological nature.
Documentary filmmaker Jan Šikl has spent many years seeking out and collecting private film archives. Faded footage of family lives, celluloid echoes of celebrations and everyday moments. Through his work, Šikl came across several hours of footage showing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. These unique images long remained unseen – until August 21, 2021, when historical memory awakened from a long slumber. Reconstruction of Occupation is a cinematic adventure of a truly archeological nature in which anonymous faces are transformed into living witnesses of the days that sent Czechoslovakia into two more decades of bondage.
Martin Horyna
100 min / Color, Black & White, DCP
World premiere
Director Jan Šikl
/ Screenplay Jan Šikl
/ Dir. of Photography Adam Ol'ha
/ Music Jan Šikl ml.
/ Editor Šimon Špidla
/ Producer Alice Tabery
/ Production CINEPOINT
/ Coproduction PubRes, Česká televize, Pragafilm, RTVS
/ Contact CINEPOINT, Lucie Šplíchalová
www: www.rekonstrukceokupace.cz
Jan Šikl (1957, Prague). Selected filmography: Private Century - TV series incorporating the following: The King of Velichovky (2002, TV doc. film), A Stroke of Butterfly Wings (2005, TV doc. film), A Low-Level Flight (2006, doc.), See You in Denver (2006, TV doc. film), Small Russian Clouds of Smoke (2007, TV doc. film), Reconstruction of the Occupation (2021, doc.).
CINEPOINT
Pod Vinicemi 710/13, 165 00, Prague
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 732 883 260
E-mail: [email protected]
Lucie Šplíchalová
Phone: +420 604 150 078
E-mail: [email protected]
Jan Šikl
Director
Alice Tabery
Producer
Lucie Šplíchalová
Publicist
Adam Oľha
Director of Photography
Šimon Špidla
Film Editor
Jan Šikl ml.
Music Composer
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