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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
Karel Vachek
Original idea
Karel Vachek
Producer
Pavel Beneš ...
Production company
Krátký Film Praha ...
Director of photography
Karel Slach
Editor
Renata Pařezová
Financial Support
- specific grant: State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography

What Is to Be Done? (A Journey from Prague to Cesky Krumlov or How I Formed a New Government)

Co dělat? (Cesta z Prahy do Českého Krumlova aneb Jak jsem sestavoval novou vládu), Czech Republic, 1996, 216 min, IDF Video Library, Politics, Society

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In this monumental social-philosophic essay, director Karel Vachek follows up on his previous work. This time Vachek enters the film and, along with his assistant Luboš, becomes an active organizer and author of the action on the screen. In this way he reaches the boundaries of a genre in which a documentary film is not a real reflection of reality, but the result of a specific artistic creation. The work originates by an interaction between the film team and the film reality as well as by the reorganization of the footage new units. The second line of the film consists of conversations among several Czech scholars who are on a bus to Český Krumlov.

Director:

Karel Vachek

Original idea:

Karel Vachek

Screenplay:

Karel Vachek

Producer:

Karel Dvořák, Pavel Beneš, Damián Kaušitz, Anna Vášová

Dramaturgy:

Jana Hádková

Director of photography:

Karel Slach