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Values of the Velvet Revolution and the Film
Rousek, Jan ; KUBICA, Petr (advisor) ; Kratochvíl, Jaroslav (referee)
The Master’s thesis concerns with the most important audiovisual works that deal with the topic of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989. The thesis compares their meaning with contemporary historical research of the values that the revolutionary society intended – democracy, socialism and non-violence. Through this comparison it measures the revolutionary character, authenticity, author intention and their impact on viewers. The representation of the values is the most visible in films made between years 1989-1990. The other films include just partial mentions, which is a prove of the ideologisation of those audiovisual works made from the time distance.
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Ladislav Helge: Caught between film and politics
Rousek, Jan ; Kopeček, Michal (advisor) ; Koura, Petr (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to map political activities of Ladislav Helge, a film director. Due to his social sensitivity and sympathies for the Red army as a liberator of Czechoslovkaia, he favored left-wing politics. At the beginning of his career he was not involved in politics and instead immersed himself fully in his profession of a film director. His first initiation to the world of politics came with the shooting of Frona. This film represents a turning point in both his artistic and political activities. Gradual de-Stalinization across the 1950s happened alongside Helge's first independent film project and his deliberate joining of KSC. The political intervention of the communist party into the liberal functioning of Czechoslovak film during the Banska Bystrica film festival determined his political activism that was to follow. In the mid 1960s Helge, as a leader of a professional film organization FITES, stood up to the attempts of the communist functionaries to curtail the artistic freedom of filmmakers belonging to the New Wave movement. Between 1968 and 1969 he led the Coordinating committee of creative associations and defended the freedoms gained during the Prague Spring. Soon after, his employment at Barrandov studios was terminated. In 1977 he signed the Anti-Charter. The last chapter...
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THE IMAGE OF POLITICS IN THE FILMS OF LADISLAV HELGE
Rousek, Jan ; KUBICA, Petr (advisor) ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (referee)
This Bachelor's thesis brings a broaden, political view on the work of the director Ladislav Helge, enriched by the till-now marginalized perspectives of perception on the political range of his work. Helge is introduced not just as a filmmaker, but, primarily, as a left-wing intellectual whose work transcends the film category into the political environment.
On the basis of the exemple of political narrative, the director's work is examined in the context of the era and the relation of film and social situation controlled by the Communist party in Czechoslovakia is explored.
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Town Polná as stage of air war (1939-1945)
ROUSEK, Jan
The bachelor work Town Polná as stage of air war deals with problems of air war on restricted space around historical town Polná. Above all it focuses itself on numerous crashes of German Luftwaffe planes. Air crashes occured above all in 1944 in the context of operation of group SG 102 on airport in Německý Brod. It also tries to outline activity of fighter-bombers in the surroundings and lastly attack of soviet fighters on square in Polná on the 9. May 1944. In the second part it is concerned with the crash of american four-engined bomber B-24 Liberator on the 16. December 1944. It tries to cast light upon the fate of shot down flyers, reasons of their crash and their way into captivity.
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