Czech cinema's greatest threw a party and someone filmed it. Chaos? Glamour? Both.
The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the expensive decorations of the Variety Theatre auditorium (built for the Circus Humberto series). They smiled and showed well-deserved relaxation after a job well done in managing socialist cinema. Vladimir Sís interspersed this with excerpts from films, mainly his own and also a little of others who had worked on the "Hill of Dreams".
Production
Circus Humberto set repurposed for maximum socialist glitz
Editing
Sís cuts between party footage and his own films shamelessly
Director
Vladimír Sís
Miroslav Horníček
Self - Host
Miloš Kopecký
Self - Host
Jiří Bartoška
Self - Actor
Jiřina Bohdalová
Self - Actor
Jana Brejchová
Self - Actor
Jiří Dohnal
Self - Actor
Karel Effa
Self - Actor
Vlasta Fabianová
Self - Actor
František Filipovský
Self - Actor
Nelly Gaierová
Self - Actor
Jaromír Hanzlík
Self - Actor
Ljuba Hermanová
Self - Actor
Jana Hlaváčová
Self - Actor
Rudolf Hrušínský
Self - Actor
Iva Janžurová
Self - Actor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Barrandov Studios was nicknamed the 'Hill of Dreams' — this doc captures the moment those dreams became institutional memory under state socialism.
Sís directing his own tribute while inserting his filmography is peak 1980s auteur behavior, Eastern Bloc edition.
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