- Occupation
Director - Country
Czech Republic
Koutecký Pavel
Oh, What a Struggle It Was
All the human hustle and bustle during the period after the 1989 revolution.
A Beautiful Life I Will Have...
The director's last film before his premature and tragic death. Preparations for a theatre production in the Bělá pod Bezdězem refugee camp. People looking for a new home. Following the rehearsals, the author creates portraits of the refugees who have come here in search of a new home. For several months in 1996, a group of professionals from Prague's Archa Theatre lived and worked in the camp alongside asylum seekers, jointly creating a large-scale multimedia presentation, "I'm leaving you at 11:20!"
Come Closer, Candy (Czech-South African Dreams)
For several years, ten Czech and South African artists have worked together in a unique theatre project. The theme of their performance deals with one of the most intimate area of their lives: their own dreams. Obsessive dreams, unfulfilled desires, and nightmares became the common ground on which the creators, who come from very different cultures, could meet. The performance which emerged was full of imagery, humor, strangeness, and absurdity. The film follows not only the project's preparation, but also the journeys that lead black South Africans to small Bohemian and Moravian cities and the white Czechs to the black townships, where white people had previously been afraid to enter.
Sweat and Tears - The Making of the Prague Spring, Opus No. 2
This documentary film is the second in the trilogy Prague Spring Comes Every Year, which disrupts the stereotype in which the world of classical music is presented by the media. The film is made up of four storylines. The story of conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, as he rehearses Janáček's Taras Bulba with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. The second story shows a unique event of two grand pianos being reassembled to form a single instrument, and the concert featuring this instrument. In the third story we are present at an international competition in trombone playing and we watch the mutual attitudes of the competitors. Garrick Ohlsson, a star of the first order, features in the fourth story, which tells about the artist's feelings towards the composer and his endless path to perfection.
Icelandic Memory
The impetus for making this travelogue was Jan Burian's description of his travels in The Journey to Iceland saga. Icelandic Memory tries to identify features that constitute a community.
Where Is the Truth?
The life stories of Hans Stein and Milan Platovský, two Czechs living in Chile.
Amici, Dancing with Friends
Amici is a London-based dance theatre company integrating able-bodied and disabled artists and performers. Each member lives his or her own life, they meet once a week in order to enrich the lives of the others so that they come to know one another and share the joy of joint creativity. Amici, Dancing with Friends, deals with non-verbal communication involving touch, movement, dance, mutual respect and empathy.
Seekers of a Fixed Point
This documentary is a provisional culmination of a long-term project that aims to capture recent Czech history (1990-2001) by following the lives of four people who were active in the events of 1989.
The Sportsman
Approximately 250 photographs by Roman Sejkot of a mentally handicapped swimmer which are wonderfully animated by the film's director. A selection of these photographs came third in the Sports Stories category in the 1993 World Press Photo competition.
Prague Castle through the Ages
The film presents the thousand-year development of the Prague Castle - from the bastion below the third courtyard to the new orangery by architect Eva Jiřičná. This extraordinarily impressive insight into architecture, sculptures or works of old art evokes the genius loci and shows the life and thoughts of rulers and those who constructed the castle. The film is divided into chapters dealing with the specific key periods of the history of the castle, its rises and falls. The film soundtrack by Jaroslav Tůma works with improvisations on the organ and period instruments.
Square Ďáblice 1998 - 2004
Written for Prague Spring, Opus No. 3
Opus Three - The final part of Pavel Koutecký's trilogy of Prague Spring is made up of two compositions specially created for the festival - Sylvie Bodorová's oratorium Judas Maccabeus, with texts from the Old Testament, and Peter Graham's Subida. The first was performed in St. Vitus' Cathedral at Prague Castle, the second in an old factory in the Karlin district of Prague. The first is a large-scale work, classical in conception, with every detail annotated in the score; the second is a smaller-scale and highly experimental piece allowing the players considerable freedom of interpretation. Both, however, are very far removed from the usual concert repertoire and style of playing. The heroes of the film are without doubt the composers, who first have to put their musical vision on paper, then explain it to the conductor, players and singers. The film crew was present at virtually every stage of the demanding rehearsal process. Following the tragic death of Pavel Koutecký last year, the film was completed by director Jaroslav Hovorka.
It's Spring in Prague Every Year/It's the Prague Spring Every Year, Opus No. 1
Two clarinet players, one Czech and one Israeli, first sing to one another over the phone and then send each other emails with photographs of their concert gowns. Several days prior to their performance, they meet and discover that each had been rehearsing a different version of the composition. Following this new musical interplay is one of the plot lines in this documentary film, which tries to capture the backstage of the Prague Spring music festival, an important festival institution. The director does not show the individual performances but represents them, offers experiences of specific situations, and images of the creative work. The film is among the work by Koutecký's that is driven by an admiration for music and architecture, permanent and indestructible forms of art. The fingers of the clarinet players in an erotic musical confrontation. Virtuosity hides behind the energy of the rehearsals, captured in the film amidst the festival's preparations. Smaller events thus combine to form a model of the music festival's polysemous performance space, which the camera, in the present and in dialogue, co-creates as a cultural, political, and symbolic act in one. Institution is a hierarchy, accompanied by the attributes of control and subordination. All the musicians identify with this. They are united by their passion for music, and yet the invisible tensions among them become the plotline of what takes place. Documenting an institution means choosing and selecting, and Koutecký presents in the film those moments where the work is emerging, the feelings and conduct related to these moments, and the entire drama of the rehearsals, in which the sphere of action is transmitted from the psyche of the musicians to the musical tones. The director's comments on the comical effects that the battle over music also produces are made with tact and restraint. What he is attempting is to capture the creative process, and he does not prevail on the viewer to emotionally experience the music presented in the film. On the contrary, using situational images, hidden behind the concerts, he reveals the individuality of the musicians who contribute to the festival's universal value.
Citizen Havel
In the course of 13 years the crew has filmed 45 hours of images and recorded 90 hours of sound material. This truly unique material offers new looks behind the scenes of international politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and also into events in a post-totalitarian country during its transition to democracy. Václav Havel was a key figure in the great changes that took place in central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s - the film material captures his work and influence both in his country and internationally. Among the truly unique events captured on film is Bill Clinton's State visit to the Czech Republic in January 1994, including the private part of the visit, when he went to the Reduta jazz club in Prague. Other events are the historic 2002 NATO Summit in Prague, Václav Havel formulating his position for a statement during the Prague meeting of the International Monetary Fund: "I sympathize with opponents of the IMF, and I'm also anti-establishment, but now I represent the country hosting the meeting"...
A Fleeting Look Into the Old Royal Crypt
The film captures the atmosphere and initial reactions of researchers in examining the Old Royal Crypt in St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle in 2005 with a probe that uses a laser to precisely measure the space and, using a small video camera, shows what is in the space - all this through an opening only 3,8 cm in diameter that was drillled in the floor.
High Water
Five chapters by leading Czech documentary filmmakers on August 2002 when Prague was besieged by the worst flood in five hundred years.
To Live as a Dane
About Danes, their character, sense of humour and feelings of luck. The film tells the story of a clown who became a deputy, a priest who dresses as a clown and an economist who works as a postman.
Bornholm - Off-Season
Bornholm Island in the Baltic Sea belong to the Danes. Thousands of tourists go there in the summer, but almost nobody goes there in the winter. The filmmakers take a look at the time when the islanders can live their own life.
I Remember, You Remember...Do Xou Remember?
A documentary film capturing the changes in lifestyle from 1945 to the present.
Dear Maestro
A film documentary essay on the distinguished European architect Josip Plečnik which confronts his work in Prague and in his nature Slovenia. In a unique way the film acquaints viewers with Plečnik´s reconstruction work at Prague Castle which, at the request of Persident T.G. Masaryk, was to transform this landmark into the seat of a new democratic state.
Bravely to the Ballot Box
Seeing elections in different time periods. - a documentary.
Up and Down
A confrontation of the two life-stales - of the young succesful enterpreneur and the displaced person, former journalist.
The Return of Plečnik to Prague
A documentary on the Josip Plečnik - Architecture for a New Democracy which was held in the summer of 1996 at Prague Castle. The film presents the authors of the exhibition who comment on shots taken of the exhibits.
The End of Czechoslovakia in the Parliament
Suspicion, mistrust, tactics, histrionic scenes and work - in the lobby and couloirs as well - this all shows the film.
Chilean Diary - Journey to Altiplano [and Back]
How to survive nine thousand meters above sea level.
Chilean Diary - Indians, Magicians and Lifts
Three special places in Chile - Valparaiso, the indian island Chiloe and the small deserted town of La Titana.
Chilean Diary - Story of Guillermo from Mcel
About a man who faced teh challenge of making his way through the forest to the top of the hill so that he could look down.
Chilean Diary - Santiago - Life in the Movement
How they live in Chile´s capital city.
Chilean Diary - On the Sand
Plants, animals and people can live on sand and even enjoy it.
After Years
Another part of a documentary series in which the director questions several personalities who were involved in the Velvet Revolution (Kryštof N., vladimír N., Marta kubišová, Petr Čepek, Martin Mejstřík, Jan Ruml, Michael Kocáb) in the cours of years.
American in Prague or Partnership for Jazz
Short film about the visit of American President Bill Clinton to Prague in January 1994 which includes also his performance in the famous jazz club Reduta where he played saxophone with a jazz band being accompanied by the Czech president Václav Havel on percussion.
The Hidden Charm of Bureaucracy
A film searching for the meaning and importance of state administrative bodies. A few images and concrete situations from offices with which Czechs are in frequent contact, as well as institutions which Czechs know mostly about from the media. The creators of this film show Czech offices from the position of the citizen as well as the office employee, who is the buffer between the state administrative bodies and the citizen.
Story of the Story
A documentary film mapping the difficult preparation and first days of the permanent exhibition of the history of Prague Castle,which is held in the Old Royal Pallace at Prague Castle.
Four Velvet Men Then and Now: Michael Kocáb
Portraits of 4 personalities of the Velvet Revolution captured within the span of twenty years. Director Pavel Koutecký and later director Jan Šikl have been following the lives of four people who were among those who stepped up onto the tribune on Wenceslas Square in Prague in November 1989. Musician Michael Kocáb, dissident Jan Ruml, young participant in the incursion on Národní třída Kryštof Rímský and student leader Martin Mejstřík. The post-November period opened up new possibilities and opportunities for all of them. This unique film project captures their quests, misconceptions, resolutions and doubts on the way to finding their own place in the troubled waters of a transforming society.
Four Velvet Men Then and Now - Jan Ruml
Twenty years ago, filmmaker Pavel Koutecký began following the stories of four people who actively took part in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution: musician Michael Kocáb, dissident Jan Ruml and students Kryštof Rímský and Martin Mejstřík. After Koutecký's death, the project was taken on by Jan Šikl. These four films, made over an extremely long period, recapitulate the protagonists' ups and downs, and allow the viewer to reflect with them on the developments Czech society has gone through during the last two decades. The part dedicated to Jan Ruml introduces viewers to a well-known politician, who has influenced society as interior minister, party boss and senator. Despite the challenges he has faced, Ruml has lost neither an ability for reflection nor a sense of responsibility for the public sphere.
Four Velvet Men Then and Now - Martin Mejstřík
Twenty years ago, filmmaker Pavel Koutecký began following the stories of four people who actively took part in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution: musician Michael Kocáb, dissident Jan Ruml and students Kryštof Rímský and Martin Mejstřík. After Koutecký's death, the project was taken on by Jan Šikl. These four films, made over an extremely long period, recapitulate the protagonists' ups and downs, and allow the viewer to reflect with them on the developments Czech society has gone through during the last two decades. The part about Martin Mejstřík can be summed up by the phrase "sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down." Through circumstances and his own decisions, Mejstřík occasionally finds himself at the heart of social affairs, while in other moments he goes through difficult times personally. This is the story of an obstinate activist forever dogged by internal doubts who tries out roles as varied as journalist, gardener, janitor and senator. So far, it doesn't have a happy ending.
Four Velvet Men Then and Now - Kryštof Rímský
Twenty years ago, filmmaker Pavel Koutecký began following the stories of four people who actively took part in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution: musician Michael Kocáb, dissident Jan Ruml and students Kryštof Rímský and Martin Mejstřík. After Koutecký's death, the project was taken on by Jan Šikl. These four films, made over an extremely long period, recapitulate the protagonists' ups and downs, and allow the viewer to reflect with them on the developments Czech society has gone through during the last two decades. Last story from this unique longitudinal documentary is dedicated to Kryštof Rímský, who was in 1989 a secondary-school pupil and the youngest witness of the brutal police incursion on Národní třída.
All the human hustle and bustle during the period after the 1989 revolution.
A Beautiful Life I Will Have...
The director's last film before his premature and tragic death. Preparations for a theatre production in the Bělá pod Bezdězem refugee camp. People looking for a new home. Following the rehearsals, the author creates portraits of the refugees who have come here in search of a new home. For several months in 1996, a group of professionals from Prague's Archa Theatre lived and worked in the camp alongside asylum seekers, jointly creating a large-scale multimedia presentation, "I'm leaving you at 11:20!"
Come Closer, Candy (Czech-South African Dreams)
For several years, ten Czech and South African artists have worked together in a unique theatre project. The theme of their performance deals with one of the most intimate area of their lives: their own dreams. Obsessive dreams, unfulfilled desires, and nightmares became the common ground on which the creators, who come from very different cultures, could meet. The performance which emerged was full of imagery, humor, strangeness, and absurdity. The film follows not only the project's preparation, but also the journeys that lead black South Africans to small Bohemian and Moravian cities and the white Czechs to the black townships, where white people had previously been afraid to enter.
Sweat and Tears - The Making of the Prague Spring, Opus No. 2
This documentary film is the second in the trilogy Prague Spring Comes Every Year, which disrupts the stereotype in which the world of classical music is presented by the media. The film is made up of four storylines. The story of conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, as he rehearses Janáček's Taras Bulba with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. The second story shows a unique event of two grand pianos being reassembled to form a single instrument, and the concert featuring this instrument. In the third story we are present at an international competition in trombone playing and we watch the mutual attitudes of the competitors. Garrick Ohlsson, a star of the first order, features in the fourth story, which tells about the artist's feelings towards the composer and his endless path to perfection.
Icelandic Memory
The impetus for making this travelogue was Jan Burian's description of his travels in The Journey to Iceland saga. Icelandic Memory tries to identify features that constitute a community.
Where Is the Truth?
The life stories of Hans Stein and Milan Platovský, two Czechs living in Chile.
Amici, Dancing with Friends
Amici is a London-based dance theatre company integrating able-bodied and disabled artists and performers. Each member lives his or her own life, they meet once a week in order to enrich the lives of the others so that they come to know one another and share the joy of joint creativity. Amici, Dancing with Friends, deals with non-verbal communication involving touch, movement, dance, mutual respect and empathy.
Seekers of a Fixed Point
This documentary is a provisional culmination of a long-term project that aims to capture recent Czech history (1990-2001) by following the lives of four people who were active in the events of 1989.
The Sportsman
Approximately 250 photographs by Roman Sejkot of a mentally handicapped swimmer which are wonderfully animated by the film's director. A selection of these photographs came third in the Sports Stories category in the 1993 World Press Photo competition.
Prague Castle through the Ages
The film presents the thousand-year development of the Prague Castle - from the bastion below the third courtyard to the new orangery by architect Eva Jiřičná. This extraordinarily impressive insight into architecture, sculptures or works of old art evokes the genius loci and shows the life and thoughts of rulers and those who constructed the castle. The film is divided into chapters dealing with the specific key periods of the history of the castle, its rises and falls. The film soundtrack by Jaroslav Tůma works with improvisations on the organ and period instruments.
Square Ďáblice 1998 - 2004
Written for Prague Spring, Opus No. 3
Opus Three - The final part of Pavel Koutecký's trilogy of Prague Spring is made up of two compositions specially created for the festival - Sylvie Bodorová's oratorium Judas Maccabeus, with texts from the Old Testament, and Peter Graham's Subida. The first was performed in St. Vitus' Cathedral at Prague Castle, the second in an old factory in the Karlin district of Prague. The first is a large-scale work, classical in conception, with every detail annotated in the score; the second is a smaller-scale and highly experimental piece allowing the players considerable freedom of interpretation. Both, however, are very far removed from the usual concert repertoire and style of playing. The heroes of the film are without doubt the composers, who first have to put their musical vision on paper, then explain it to the conductor, players and singers. The film crew was present at virtually every stage of the demanding rehearsal process. Following the tragic death of Pavel Koutecký last year, the film was completed by director Jaroslav Hovorka.
It's Spring in Prague Every Year/It's the Prague Spring Every Year, Opus No. 1
Two clarinet players, one Czech and one Israeli, first sing to one another over the phone and then send each other emails with photographs of their concert gowns. Several days prior to their performance, they meet and discover that each had been rehearsing a different version of the composition. Following this new musical interplay is one of the plot lines in this documentary film, which tries to capture the backstage of the Prague Spring music festival, an important festival institution. The director does not show the individual performances but represents them, offers experiences of specific situations, and images of the creative work. The film is among the work by Koutecký's that is driven by an admiration for music and architecture, permanent and indestructible forms of art. The fingers of the clarinet players in an erotic musical confrontation. Virtuosity hides behind the energy of the rehearsals, captured in the film amidst the festival's preparations. Smaller events thus combine to form a model of the music festival's polysemous performance space, which the camera, in the present and in dialogue, co-creates as a cultural, political, and symbolic act in one. Institution is a hierarchy, accompanied by the attributes of control and subordination. All the musicians identify with this. They are united by their passion for music, and yet the invisible tensions among them become the plotline of what takes place. Documenting an institution means choosing and selecting, and Koutecký presents in the film those moments where the work is emerging, the feelings and conduct related to these moments, and the entire drama of the rehearsals, in which the sphere of action is transmitted from the psyche of the musicians to the musical tones. The director's comments on the comical effects that the battle over music also produces are made with tact and restraint. What he is attempting is to capture the creative process, and he does not prevail on the viewer to emotionally experience the music presented in the film. On the contrary, using situational images, hidden behind the concerts, he reveals the individuality of the musicians who contribute to the festival's universal value.
Citizen Havel
In the course of 13 years the crew has filmed 45 hours of images and recorded 90 hours of sound material. This truly unique material offers new looks behind the scenes of international politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and also into events in a post-totalitarian country during its transition to democracy. Václav Havel was a key figure in the great changes that took place in central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s - the film material captures his work and influence both in his country and internationally. Among the truly unique events captured on film is Bill Clinton's State visit to the Czech Republic in January 1994, including the private part of the visit, when he went to the Reduta jazz club in Prague. Other events are the historic 2002 NATO Summit in Prague, Václav Havel formulating his position for a statement during the Prague meeting of the International Monetary Fund: "I sympathize with opponents of the IMF, and I'm also anti-establishment, but now I represent the country hosting the meeting"...
A Fleeting Look Into the Old Royal Crypt
The film captures the atmosphere and initial reactions of researchers in examining the Old Royal Crypt in St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle in 2005 with a probe that uses a laser to precisely measure the space and, using a small video camera, shows what is in the space - all this through an opening only 3,8 cm in diameter that was drillled in the floor.
High Water
Five chapters by leading Czech documentary filmmakers on August 2002 when Prague was besieged by the worst flood in five hundred years.
To Live as a Dane
About Danes, their character, sense of humour and feelings of luck. The film tells the story of a clown who became a deputy, a priest who dresses as a clown and an economist who works as a postman.
Bornholm - Off-Season
Bornholm Island in the Baltic Sea belong to the Danes. Thousands of tourists go there in the summer, but almost nobody goes there in the winter. The filmmakers take a look at the time when the islanders can live their own life.
I Remember, You Remember...Do Xou Remember?
A documentary film capturing the changes in lifestyle from 1945 to the present.
Dear Maestro
A film documentary essay on the distinguished European architect Josip Plečnik which confronts his work in Prague and in his nature Slovenia. In a unique way the film acquaints viewers with Plečnik´s reconstruction work at Prague Castle which, at the request of Persident T.G. Masaryk, was to transform this landmark into the seat of a new democratic state.
Bravely to the Ballot Box
Seeing elections in different time periods. - a documentary.
Up and Down
A confrontation of the two life-stales - of the young succesful enterpreneur and the displaced person, former journalist.
The Return of Plečnik to Prague
A documentary on the Josip Plečnik - Architecture for a New Democracy which was held in the summer of 1996 at Prague Castle. The film presents the authors of the exhibition who comment on shots taken of the exhibits.
The End of Czechoslovakia in the Parliament
Suspicion, mistrust, tactics, histrionic scenes and work - in the lobby and couloirs as well - this all shows the film.
Chilean Diary - Journey to Altiplano [and Back]
How to survive nine thousand meters above sea level.
Chilean Diary - Indians, Magicians and Lifts
Three special places in Chile - Valparaiso, the indian island Chiloe and the small deserted town of La Titana.
Chilean Diary - Story of Guillermo from Mcel
About a man who faced teh challenge of making his way through the forest to the top of the hill so that he could look down.
Chilean Diary - Santiago - Life in the Movement
How they live in Chile´s capital city.
Chilean Diary - On the Sand
Plants, animals and people can live on sand and even enjoy it.
After Years
Another part of a documentary series in which the director questions several personalities who were involved in the Velvet Revolution (Kryštof N., vladimír N., Marta kubišová, Petr Čepek, Martin Mejstřík, Jan Ruml, Michael Kocáb) in the cours of years.
American in Prague or Partnership for Jazz
Short film about the visit of American President Bill Clinton to Prague in January 1994 which includes also his performance in the famous jazz club Reduta where he played saxophone with a jazz band being accompanied by the Czech president Václav Havel on percussion.
The Hidden Charm of Bureaucracy
A film searching for the meaning and importance of state administrative bodies. A few images and concrete situations from offices with which Czechs are in frequent contact, as well as institutions which Czechs know mostly about from the media. The creators of this film show Czech offices from the position of the citizen as well as the office employee, who is the buffer between the state administrative bodies and the citizen.
Story of the Story
A documentary film mapping the difficult preparation and first days of the permanent exhibition of the history of Prague Castle,which is held in the Old Royal Pallace at Prague Castle.
Four Velvet Men Then and Now: Michael Kocáb
Portraits of 4 personalities of the Velvet Revolution captured within the span of twenty years. Director Pavel Koutecký and later director Jan Šikl have been following the lives of four people who were among those who stepped up onto the tribune on Wenceslas Square in Prague in November 1989. Musician Michael Kocáb, dissident Jan Ruml, young participant in the incursion on Národní třída Kryštof Rímský and student leader Martin Mejstřík. The post-November period opened up new possibilities and opportunities for all of them. This unique film project captures their quests, misconceptions, resolutions and doubts on the way to finding their own place in the troubled waters of a transforming society.
Four Velvet Men Then and Now - Jan Ruml
Twenty years ago, filmmaker Pavel Koutecký began following the stories of four people who actively took part in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution: musician Michael Kocáb, dissident Jan Ruml and students Kryštof Rímský and Martin Mejstřík. After Koutecký's death, the project was taken on by Jan Šikl. These four films, made over an extremely long period, recapitulate the protagonists' ups and downs, and allow the viewer to reflect with them on the developments Czech society has gone through during the last two decades. The part dedicated to Jan Ruml introduces viewers to a well-known politician, who has influenced society as interior minister, party boss and senator. Despite the challenges he has faced, Ruml has lost neither an ability for reflection nor a sense of responsibility for the public sphere.
Four Velvet Men Then and Now - Martin Mejstřík
Twenty years ago, filmmaker Pavel Koutecký began following the stories of four people who actively took part in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution: musician Michael Kocáb, dissident Jan Ruml and students Kryštof Rímský and Martin Mejstřík. After Koutecký's death, the project was taken on by Jan Šikl. These four films, made over an extremely long period, recapitulate the protagonists' ups and downs, and allow the viewer to reflect with them on the developments Czech society has gone through during the last two decades. The part about Martin Mejstřík can be summed up by the phrase "sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down." Through circumstances and his own decisions, Mejstřík occasionally finds himself at the heart of social affairs, while in other moments he goes through difficult times personally. This is the story of an obstinate activist forever dogged by internal doubts who tries out roles as varied as journalist, gardener, janitor and senator. So far, it doesn't have a happy ending.
Four Velvet Men Then and Now - Kryštof Rímský
Twenty years ago, filmmaker Pavel Koutecký began following the stories of four people who actively took part in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution: musician Michael Kocáb, dissident Jan Ruml and students Kryštof Rímský and Martin Mejstřík. After Koutecký's death, the project was taken on by Jan Šikl. These four films, made over an extremely long period, recapitulate the protagonists' ups and downs, and allow the viewer to reflect with them on the developments Czech society has gone through during the last two decades. Last story from this unique longitudinal documentary is dedicated to Kryštof Rímský, who was in 1989 a secondary-school pupil and the youngest witness of the brutal police incursion on Národní třída.
Pavel Koutecký (June 10, 1956 – April 13, 2006) was a Czech documentary film director. Koutecký was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and graduated from FAMU in 1982. He died in an accidental fall from a tall building under construction in Prague while preparing a documentary about the risks taken by people who climb skyscrapers. In 1988 and 1991 he made study trips to the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield in England. From 1982 to 1989, he was employed at the ČVUT video studio, and from 1990 to 1998, at Kratký Film, Prague. He collaborates on a regular basis with the Association (formerly, the Foundation) of Film and Sociology. He has worked on a number of documentaries for the association, as well as long-term collection projects. His main focus is documentary filmmaking, but he has also experimented with animation. He has also worked on multimedia projects (Carousel Theatre, Theatre of Music). From 1991 on, he has taught at the Documentaries Department at FAMU, where he runs one of the creative workshops. His films and videos have received many awards at film festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad. He usually shoots in creative collaboration with the cameraman Stano Slušný. Filmography (selection): Dialogue; Maximalists in a Micro-world; Studies for an Electron Microscope; Oh, Do We Have it Good; The Destruction of Czechoslovakia in Parliament; The Hidden Face of Prague Castle; Sportsmen; Situation 1, 2 ?; Josip Plečnik - Architect of Prague Castle; Plečnik's Return to Prague; In Life; For Eternity; I Remember, You Remember ? Do You All Remember?; Icelandic Memory; Seeking a Foothold; Prague Castle Through the Ages.
Filmography:
Dialog
editor: Henry Frýda
1981 FAMU (graduation film), 35 mm, 18 min
The creative collaboration and friendship of two distinct personalities: a master glass artist raisins and J. R. Roubicek
Czech Literary Fund Prize
Insights and reflections
editor: Henry Juna
1982 FAMU (emergency exercise - experiment. Film), 16 mm, 10 min
Through the glass objects Vaclav Cígler.
Maximalism in the microworld
editor: Jan Petras
sound. Zbynek Mikulik
1985 Short Film Festival (debut), 35 mm, 20 min
Scientific work as a team formation, its joys and sorrows or how you created a prototype of the Czech electron lithographer.
Golden Sun, a young film Trutnov Festival '86
Honorable Mention: Techfilm Pardubice '86
Festival of Czech and Slovak film Piešťany '86
Theatrum artis
editor: Jan Petras
1986 Short Film Festival, 35 mm, 21 min
Second International Glass Symposium in Novy Bor, theater production
Area III
Running time: Vladimir Forst
1988, PASTA, video
Videokatalog exhibition exploring the relationship of glass sculptures and landscape
Etudes for electron microscope
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Zbynek Mikulik
1988 Short Film Festival, 35 mm, 21 min
The people, equipment and special world of electron microscopy.
The main prize in the science and the price of Slovak Academy of Sciences
Academia Film Olomouc '89
honorable mention Techfilm Pardubice '89
Meeting point: Nový Bor
Running time: Zdenek Patocka
1989, 5D Studio, 16 mm, 33 min
The third glass symposium, the participants, their work and its results
OOO, we have
editor: Jan Petras
1990, PASTA, video, 10 min.
Prague in late December at the end of the November 1989 coup, or Havel (first time) at the Castle.
After
editor: Jan Petras
1990 Short Film Festival (film Rapporteur), 35mm, 15 min
premium Czech Literary Fund '91
Other people like us
editor: Jan Matlach
1991 Videojournal for the Goodwill, video, 40 min
The right of mentally disabled to live in dignity.
After a year and again after
editor: Jan Petras
1991, CT, video, 60 min
What happened to several of those who in November 89, suddenly found themselves on the political scene.
premium Czech Literary Fund '92
Oh, it was a fight!
editor: Jan Petras
1992, PASTA, Foundation M & S, 16 mm, 7 min
Playful, experimental film, depicting Prague during the campaign before the first free elections in 1990
Boldly to the polls
editor: Jan Brewer
1992 F & S Foundation, video, 60 min
Discussion on the election agenda for 1992, Interleaved editing blocks from the newspaper on the elections from 1946 to 1990
Up and Down
editor: Jan Petras
1992 FEBIO for Reflex, video, 11 min
Confronting one of the homeless (former journalist) and entrepreneurs (formerly carpet cleaners).
One day in Parliament
editor: Boris Machytka
1992 FEBIO, video, 20 min
OKO together with directors roof and J. V. Kvasnička. Day and night the Federal Assembly during the failed election President Vaclav Havel, during the beginning of the end of the Federal Assembly.
Amici, dancing with friends
editor: Jan Petras
Camera: Pavel Koutecky
1993 NFTS, Foundations Film & Sociologie, P. Koutecky, 16 mm, 29 min
The London dance troupe, which brings together healthy, mentally and physically disabled.
GEN: Stanislav Libensky
editor: Jan Petras
1993 FEBIO, video, 15.5 min
Portrait of a man who not only brought dozens of Czech glass artists and not only myself and one of the outstanding personalities of art glass.
John K.
editor: Justin Milan
1993 CT, 16 mm, 39 min
Portrait John Kristoforiho, artist, whose work pointed the years he spent in uranium camps.
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia in Parliament
editor: Jan Petras
1993 F & S Foundation, video, 75 min
The film captures the atmosphere of the famous building between the museum and theater at the end of 1992.
Price TRILOBIT 1993
Grand Prix Festival Crystal Heart, Podebrady 1995
The Far Face of Prague Castle
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Paul Sadek
1993 FEBIO, video, 21 min
About what is decimated, botched, what is acutely deteriorating or threatened in the area, which for the average visitor has a well-maintained gem.
price for professional film at the festival TSTTT 1993
GEN: George Roe
editor: Jan Petras
1994 Febio, video, 15 min
Meet the man who founded Black Theater, and his views on Czechdom, miraculousness world etc.
The athletes
editor: Martin Steklý
Sound: Paul Sadek
1994 Foundation Film & Sociology, video, 10 min
Portrait of a mentally affected Bron, created entirely from photographs Romana Sejkot
Price IG Medien, 37.Mezinárodní Festival for Documentary and Animated Film in Leipzig 1994
Dean of the Faculty of Physical Education, Akademiafilm Olomouc
1995
Price Director of the Festival and honorable mention journalists, Artfilm 1995
Price city of Palermo, Palermo International Sportfilm Festival 1996
Amici and The athletes were presented in the show M & S Dialog with neglected friends (director: Luba Václavová)
2nd price of the Government Committee for the disabled 1994
After years
editor: Martin Steklý
1994 F & S Foundation, video, 70 min
film scraps from a meeting with several of those who moved in November '89 history: Martin Mejstrik, Michal Kocab, Marta Kubišová, Jan Ruml - five years of changes in the lives of four people, five years of changes in the life of our country
Where was Bill?
editor: Martin Steklý
Sound: Paul Sadek
1994 F & S Foundation, video, 28 min
Remembering jazz meeting with President Clinton in Prague Reduta
This could be me, Michael
written and directed with Michaela Pavlátová
editor: Martin Steklý
Sound: Paul Sadek
1995, BBC, video, 2min.45 sec.
polo (auto) portrait Michaela Pavlatova
GENUS: Vladimír Kopecký
editor: Jan Petras
1996 Febio, video, 14 min
Male between spontaneity and order, between ugliness and beauty, a leading Czech artist, professor of studio glass art in a university-industry
Situation 1.2 ...
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Z. Mader
1995 KF a.s., 35mm, 10 min
Child's Play and Find - two persistent images shot using pixilation
Dear sir, Josip Pecník-Architect of Prague Castle
editor: Jan Petras
1996 Administration of Prague Castle and Short Film Praha as, 35mm, 60 min
Documentary film essay on the intersecting artistic career architect with a thousand-year history of one place - at the moment building a new order.
Techfilm Grand Prix Hradec Kralove 1996
Honorable Mention Association of Czech Cinematographers 1996
The best popular science and kulturologický film - festival Zolotoj Winner 1997
His life (gift)
editor: Martin Steklý
1996 F & S Foundation, video, 10 min
Selected Results of V. Havel years 1992-1996 (not intended for public screenings)
Return to Prague Plecnik
1997, video, 17 min
Sound: Zbynek Mikulik
authors accompany the exhibition Josip Plecnik - architecture for the new democracy at Prague Castle
How is life in Prague Castle
editor: Jan Petras
1997 Febio, video, 15 min
After years of II
editor: Martin Steklý
1997 Foundation for M & S © Czech Television, video, 59 min
summarizes 8 years of the film crew who filmed the 1990 four individuals, who suddenly appeared on the political scene in November 1989: Martin Mejstrik, Michael Kocab, Jan Ruml, and Christopher of Rome. The film follows their search, wandering, resolutions and doubts on the way to their own place in a transforming society
To life
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Michal Houdek
1997 Foundation for M & S © Czech Television, video, 59 min
About how miraculous existence is the beginning of each new person, but also that not only gives pleasure ...
Trilobite in 1997, after years of living and II
For ever
written and directed with Michaela Pavlátová
Running time: Tiffany Janková
Sound: Zbynek Mikulik
1998 Short Film Festival a.s. and CT, 35 mm
animated film about one illusion
Festival Tampere1998-home price for anim. film
Ottava 1998 - main prize in the category TV special
Viareggio 1999, a major prize in Europe ktegorii cinema & TV
STEP 1999, Ukraina, Special uznánání
Remember, remember ... remember?
theme: Alena Müller, research: Martin Steklý
editor: Jan Petras
1998 Short Film Festival a.s. and CT, video, 60 min
Nehistorického history lesson of 1945-89: How varied 'hits' daily lives, what people wanted, but what was their little world that was so common then and he's gone forever
Best Director Award Ekofilm 1998
KRISTIAN 98
Honorable Mention lit Fund
Hidden charm of bureaucracy
editor: Jan Petras
1999, Association for the Sociology Film & © Czech Television, video, 59 min
Movie search for meaning and importance of government. Program-makers, the Czech authorities from the position of the citizen, but an official who is a buffer between the system of government and citizen.
Eight days of President
Camera: Pavel Koutecky (Dominik Miskovsky)
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Zbynek Mikulik
1999, the Association of Film & Sociology and © Czech Television, video, 29 min
Report on the visit V. Havel at the NATO summit in the U.S. and state visits to Canada during the Kosovo crisis. Officiality addition, meetings with compatriots, honorary doctorates and television interviews watch the president's efforts to defend the use of force in the interest of human rights.
Chilean newspaper on the Altiplano-way and back
Screenplay: Jan Burian and Pavel Koutecky
Camera: Pavel Koutecky
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Michal Houdek
1999, the Association of Film & Sociology and © Czech Television, video, 29 min
Chilean newspaper in the sand -
Screenplay: Jan Burian and Pavel Koutecky
Camera: Pavel Koutecky
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Michal Houdek
1999, the Association of Film & Sociology and © Czech Television, video, 29 min
Chilean newspaper - Indians, magicians and lifts
Screenplay: Jan Burian and Pavel Koutecky
Camera: Pavel Koutecky
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Michal Houdek
1999, the Association of Film & Sociology and © Czech Television, video, 29 min
Chilean newspaper-_Příběh Guilerma of Mcely
Screenplay: Jan Burian and Pavel Koutecky
Camera: Pavel Koutecky
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Michal Houdek
1999, the Association of Film & Sociology and © Czech Television, video, 29 min
Santiago - life in movement and dance
Screenplay: Jan Burian and Pavel Koutecky
Camera: Pavel Koutecky
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Michal Houdek
1999, the Association of Film & Sociology and © Czech Television, video, 29 min
Where is the truth?
Screenplay: Jan Burian (and Pavel Koutecky)
Camera: Pavel Koutecky
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Michal Houdek
1999, the Association of Film & Sociology and Czech Television © 2000 video, 58 min
For one of the dictator Pinochet for the second liberator of the country. Intellectual and entrepreneur. Both come from Bohemia, both live in Santiago de Chile. Two life stories, which mirrors the story of 20th Century
Guess who will come?
editor: Jan Petras
1999, Czech TV, video, 13 min
Václav Havel visited nenavštěvované: Domov sv. Charles Borromeo for the elderly and the house lights for HIV positive.
Havel to the Castle
writer / director
editor: Martin Steklý
1999, Czech TV, video, 24 min
A collage of archive video media in November and December 1989 to 10th anniversary of the first election of Vaclav Havel, President
Bornholm - off season
Camera and directed by Pavel Koutecky
Screenplay: Jan Burian and Pavel Koutecky
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Michal Houdek
2000, Association of Film & Sociology and © Czech Television, video, 29 min
The island of Bornholm is Denmark and is a special lonely island in the Baltic Sea. In the summer there are thousands of tourists in winter, almost no one. Authors interested in precisely those moments when the islanders live by their
Live like a Dane
Camera and directed by Pavel Koutecky
Screenplay: Jan Burian and Pavel Koutecky
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Michal Houdek
2000, Association of Film & Sociology and © Czech Television, video, 29 min
The Danish nature, their humor and happiness to tell special people: a clown who became a deputy, a priest who is dressed as a clown, or engineer of economics, who works as a postman. Former Danish Ambassador to the Czech Republic said the Danes, the Czechs north.
Iceland memory
Camera and directed by Pavel Koutecky
Screenplay: Jan Burian and Pavel Koutecky
editor: Jan Petras
Sound: Michal Houdek
2000, Association of Film & Sociology and © Czech Television, video, 58 min
Third in a series of films from Northern Europe, to document the specific Nordic mentality and way of looking at life in the harsh natural conditions, this part of our continent.
Seekers fixed point
editor: Martin Steklý
Sound: Michal Houdek, Pavel Sadek, Zbynek Mikulik and other
2001, Association of Film & Sociology and © Czech Television, Video, 115 min
Stars November in a dozen years
12 years a film crew follows the lives of four of those who spoke on November 89 in public. Musician Michael Kocab, dissident Jan Ruml, a young participant in the national class action Kitts Rome and student leader Martin Mejstrik. Time after November before opening any new options, opportunities and chances. Unique film project reflects the search, wandering, resolutions and doubts on the way to their own place in the troubled waters of transforming society.
TV shows
Sitting with Jan Burian 23
1994 KF a.s. and CT, video, 30 min
Chat with AJ on Liehmem Lettre Internatonal, the culture, films and about what to do ...
Sitting with Jan Burian 24
1994 KF a.s. and CT, video, 30 min
Chat with Lidmila Nemcova ing about how to teach business ethics, but also Icelandic
Sitting with Jan Burian 25
1994 KF a.s. and CT, video, 30 min
Chat with Jan Ruml, a dissident, Videojournalu, grazing cows and a dog
Sitting with Jan Burian 26
1994 KF a.s. and CT, video, 30 min
Chat with Roman Přidalová, publisher of books for women on her way to self-knowledge and emancipation, accompanied poll among men and women on women and men
Sitting with Jan Burian 29
1995 KF a.s. and CT, video, 30 min
With Vaclav Marhoul the Cowboys, Prague five, Hardheads, directorship Barrandova well as executed Beniaka
Sitting with Jan Burian 30
1995 KF a.s. and CT, video, 30 min
The arch Zdenek Lukes of Prague's architecture and its defense, the terror of traffic engineers and stagnation in the settlements, the architectural detail and new construction
Sitting with Jan Burian 33
1995 KF a.s. and CT, video, 30 min
The poet Antonin Brousek chart of Czech poets, the poetry, emigration and repatriation
Sitting with Jan Burian 34
1995 KF a.s. and CT, video, 30 min
The dr. About the changes Dytrichem Czech marriage counseling, abortions, divorces and child-rearing - with examples from the documents Třeštíková H. "Marriage Stories"
Sitting with Jan Burian metro 1995
1995 KF a.s. and CT, video, 30 min
Chat with invited guests and random walkers with a cup of coffee in the subway on what to do with a million and no cash
Sitting with Burian 45
1996, KF a.s. and CT, video, 30 min
With Andrew Krob life, theater, and optimism
Sitting with Burian 46
1996, KF a.s. and CT, video, 30 min
With Michael Pavlátová as it was free, how to make animated films and how to not get an Oscar
Sitting with Burian
1997 KF a.s. and CT, video, 30 min
S Ladislavem Smoljak of the Rhapsody, humor and audience
Sitting with Burian
1997 KF a.s. and CT, video, 30 min
With Tomas Belko particular about how they learn in school play
Sitting with Burian
1998 Short Film Praha a.s. and CT, video, 29 min
S Mirek Janek for his films, profession editors, emigration and return
Sitting with Burian
1998 Short Film Praha a.s. and CT, video, 29 min
With Rudolf Valenta his turbulent fate, creating a life of optimism