Film and Protest – Popular Uprisings in the Cold War 5
Films
Sowjetische Truppen in Prag und Budapest (Panorama, 29.7.1968)
Sowjetische Truppen in Prag und Budapest (Panorama, 29.7.1968)
anonymous
FRG
Retrospective
A curious look at the socialist reform experiment in Prague, with sceptical undertones: Will everything end like it did in Hungary in 1956? Soviet tanks are already being deployed along the border of the ČSSR.
Confusion
Zmatek
Evald Schorm
Czechoslovakia
Retrospective
Secretly filmed footage of the suppression of the Prague Spring: hidden in archives for decades and screened 22 years later to the beat of Tchaikovsky.
Black Days
Čierne dni
Ladislav Kudelka, Milan Černák, Ctibor Kováč, Štefan Kamenický
Czechoslovakia
Retrospective
The invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968 from a Slovak perspective. Politicians and the population search for an appropriate attitude between caution and determination.
Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano, No. 422
Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano, No. 422
Santiago Álvarez
Cuba
Retrospective
Fidel Castro comments on the events of the Prague Spring – in surprisingly critical terms. This newsreel report was withdrawn from the Leipzig festival programme in 1968.
Screenings & Tickets
In the Cinemas
13.10.
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CineStar 5
Teil der Kompilation
13.10.2023
CineStar 5
#532
Teil der Kompilation