Archive of films Village B. / Obec B.

Czech Republic
2002, 30 min

Section: Documentary Films in Competition
Year: 2002

A documentary about the people of Blšany, inhabitants of the “smallest community in the world with a first league soccer team,” whose nostalgic reminiscences of the sureties of practical socialism contrast with the daily realities of the chaos of freedom.


Synopsis

This documentary about the people of Blšany is seen through the eyes of Mr. Tříska, the local one-room school principal and an amateur filmmaker, creator of a movie about “the smallest community in the world with a first league soccer team.” He guides us through an eerie village marked by Communism, a hamlet awakened from its lethargy once every two weeks by a first league soccer match. “Meetings were also held in the country,” claims Tříska, “but executions and trials took place in town. A person had to be careful in the country if he didn’t want to be denounced, but when he went to the doctor he knew he wouldn’t pay for prescriptions; and the bus cost a crown fifty, not ten like today.”

About the director

Filip Remunda

Filip Remunda (b. 1973, Prague) studied documentary filmmaking at Prague’s Film Academy (FAMU) beginning in 1997. He completed a study stay at the Sam Spiegel Film and TV School (Jerusalem) and a workshop at the Zellig Film School (Bolzano). Filmography: Christos Voskrese (1998), From Bohemia to St Helena (1999), A New Name for an Old Friend (1999), Hillary and Chris Hit the Road (1999), Angel Town (2000), Collectors of Images of Our World (2001), Poetry Day (2002), Village B.(2002).

About the film

Black & white, 35 mm

Section: Documentary Films in Competition
   
Director: Filip Remunda
Screenplay: Filip Remunda
Dir. of Photography: Martin Matiášek
Editor: Jakub Voves, Matouš Outrata
Producer: Irena Taskovski
Production: FAMU, ve spolupráci s / in co-production with: Česká televize
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