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Founded in 2001, the INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (IDF) is a non-profit training and networking centre based in Prague, Czech Republic, focused on the support of East European documentary films and their wider promotion. Our activities support filmmakers through all stages of completion – development, funding, production, post-production, and distribution. We aim at individual filmmakers (tailored consultations), groups of carefully selected professionals with projects or films (Ex Oriente Film, East European Forum, East Silver, Doc Launch, etc.), broader professional community (East Doc Platform), as well as the general public (portal www.DOKweb.net). We closely work with key int. festivals, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents, markets, or training initiatives and serve as the GATEWAY TO EAST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY FILM.

Director
Vít Janeček
Producer
Jan Gogola ml. ...
Production company
Czech TV
Director of photography
Jiří Lívanec ...
Editor
Hedvika Hansalová
IDF Events
2008 East Silver
Sales
Česká televize

History of Jaroslav Šabata

Dějiny Jaroslava Šabaty, Czech Republic, 2007, 79 min, Digi Beta, Politics, Portrait

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The film features the psychologist, politician and journalist Jaroslav Šabata (*1927) who symbolizes half a century of Czech history. The film explains the traces left by left-wing intelligentsia who first served the communist regime (Mr Šabata started giving lectures at the Department of Marxism-Leninism in 1953), then tried to reform it (as an active politician during the Prague Spring of the late 1960s), and later still opposed it (as early as 1971 he was sentenced to six and a half years in prison), eventually to see it collapse and help build a new democratic country.

Director:

Vít Janeček

Producer:

Jan Gogola ml., Pavel Plešák

Director of photography:

Jiří Lívanec, Jiří Zykmund, Braňo Pažitka

Screenplay:

Vít Janeček, Jakub Patočka

Editor:

Hedvika Hansalová

Sound:

Lenka Mikulová