In December, two films by one of the most famous Czech New Wave creators, Miloš Forman, will be shown at the "Skalvija" cinema center in the "Skalvija" cinema center: "Blonde's Love" (1965), which earned the director worldwide recognition, and ten years later JAV created - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975).
These sessions are not held randomly. According to the representatives of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Lithuania, Lauras Vancevičienės, they want not only to remember the famous Czech director M. Forman, who died this year, but also to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, which is very important for the Czech Republic. "Miloš Forman is a representative of the New Czechoslovakian cinema wave, and the New Czechoslovakian cinema wave is inseparable from the Prague Spring and especially the events that followed it," said L. Vancevičienė. It was the events of the Prague Spring that prompted Mr. Forman to leave his homeland and seek creative freedom in America.
The director's first feature film, Black Peter (1964), became one of the most prominent early films of this stylistic and Czech New Wave film movement. A year later, "Blonde's Love" earned the director international fame - he was nominated for the "Golden Lion" at the Venice Film Festival, and the "Golden Globe" in the USA. According to film critic Renata Šukaitytė, this film contains skillfully disguised criticism of modern Czech society and its government.
The film "Blonde's Love" takes you to the province of Czechoslovakia in the 7s, where a young girl Andula (Hana Brejchova) lives, who works in a shoe factory and has very few prospects of finding a husband: there is one boy for every sixteen girls in the town. At a party, Andula meets a young musician Milda from Prague. They spend the night together. The guy leaves, and Andula, without hearing from him, decides to find him herself.
According to Sonata Žalneravičiūtė, the organizer of the Skalvija film center program, M. Formans understood from the beginning that it is best to talk about serious matters with humor, and in order to be more convincing, he used true cinemanarrative stylistics.
The director especially liked working with non-professional actors. There were only two professionals in the film "Blonde's Love" - Vladimir Pucholt, who played Milda, and Vladimir Menšik, who played Vakovski, and the main female role went to H. Brejchova, the sister of the director's first wife.
According to film critics, Mr. Forman is one of the few directors from Central and Eastern Europe who managed to establish himself in the United States and create films related to the history and present of this country. Already the second film of the director, made in exile, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was a great success - it was awarded five "Oscars", six "Golden Globes" and is still considered his most famous film. The story about freedom and its price, perhaps, would not have been so suggestive if the director from a socialist country had not had personal experience of its suppression.
Forman's film "Blonde's Love" will be shown at the film classic evenings organized by the "Skalvija" film center on December 2. (presented by film critic Izolda Keidošiūtė), 9 (presented by film critic Mantė Valiūnaitė), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - in December. 16, 30 and January 6, 13, 20
