- Director
Ivan Vojnár - Original idea
Ivan Vojnár - Producer
Anna Becková ... - Production company
Ivan Vojnár Film ... - Director of photography
Martin Štěpánek - Editor
Šárka Němcová - Financial Support
- specific grant: State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (2007 - distribution) - specific grant: State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (2006)
Remembering in Reflection (Remembering)
Rozpomínání na Zrcadlení (Rozpomínání), Czech Republic, 2008, 62 min, 35 mm
Two documentary films about disease, fear and hope – Reflection (dir. Evald Schorm, 1965) and Remembering (dir. Ivan Vojnár, 2007) – which chime together, in spite of being divided for more than 40 years.
This documentary film brings together Evald Schorm and Ivan Vojnár. Schorm's film Zrcadlení inspired Vojnár's film poll that refers back to the search for lost ideals and the personal and social fight against fear. Is physical pain and disease a metaphor for a more general affliction? Schorm's Zrcadlení (1964) shifted the cinéma vérité style closer to a film essay, without aspiring to capture the sociological implications of the subject. Through questions about happiness which he posed to hospital patients, the director turns to the viewer and confronts human existence with the natural flow of time. Jan Špáta's authentic photography with its poetic compositions supplies a new thematic layer to the film; the protagonists often remain outside the camera's view, which helps to add general validity to very personal statements. Ivan Vojnár's project Rozpomínání revisits the hospital environment yet the questions have a clear sociological aspect - the director changes Schorm's "how to live" from its philosophical and figurative meaning into the everyday struggle with social and political realities. The range of respondents is very broad to include all social and age groups. The topics focus on the life in the Czech Republic at the beginning of the 21st century; in addition to questions regarding general values, happiness, sympathy or wealth, Vojnár asks about politics, Czech national character or attitudes to minorities. Authentic, mostly work environments of the protagonists also play an important part in the film.
This documentary film brings together Evald Schorm and Ivan Vojnár. Schorm's film Zrcadlení inspired Vojnár's film poll that refers back to the search for lost ideals and the personal and social fight against fear. Is physical pain and disease a metaphor for a more general affliction? Schorm's Zrcadlení (1964) shifted the cinéma vérité style closer to a film essay, without aspiring to capture the sociological implications of the subject. Through questions about happiness which he posed to hospital patients, the director turns to the viewer and confronts human existence with the natural flow of time. Jan Špáta's authentic photography with its poetic compositions supplies a new thematic layer to the film; the protagonists often remain outside the camera's view, which helps to add general validity to very personal statements. Ivan Vojnár's project Rozpomínání revisits the hospital environment yet the questions have a clear sociological aspect - the director changes Schorm's "how to live" from its philosophical and figurative meaning into the everyday struggle with social and political realities. The range of respondents is very broad to include all social and age groups. The topics focus on the life in the Czech Republic at the beginning of the 21st century; in addition to questions regarding general values, happiness, sympathy or wealth, Vojnár asks about politics, Czech national character or attitudes to minorities. Authentic, mostly work environments of the protagonists also play an important part in the film.
Director:
Ivan Vojnár
Producer:
Anna Becková, Daniel Růžička, Lucie Plocková, Vladimír Šust, Naďa Havelková, Galina Šustová
Dramaturgy:
Darja Macáková, Martin Štoll
Original idea:
Ivan Vojnár
Screenplay:
Ivan Vojnár
Director of photography:
Martin Štěpánek
Editor:
Šárka Němcová
Sound:
Michal Deliopulos, Richard Müller
Languages:
Czech
Subtitles:
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Ivan Vojnár Film
, Czech Republic
Czech TV
Kavčí hory
140 70 Prague 4, Czech Republic i/o post Dienzenhoferovy sady 1102/1
150 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
140 70 Prague 4, Czech Republic i/o post Dienzenhoferovy sady 1102/1
150 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
Association of Czech Film Clubs
Nám. Míru - Stonky 860
686 01 Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic
686 01 Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic
- specific grant: State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (2007 - distribution)
- specific grant: State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (2006)
- specific grant: State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (2006)