Prefabricated Houses
Jiří Menzel / Czechoslovakia / 1959 / 6 min.
synopsis
Jiří Menzel’s short student documentary celebrates modern panel construction as the housing of the future, and contrasts it with the dirty and outmoded buildings in the city center that are no longer suited to the needs of the young modern socialist family.biography
Director Jiří Menzel shot mostly feature-length fiction films, and received an Oscar in 1967 for Closely Watched Trains. The documentary Prefabricated Houses was a student exercise during his second year at FAMU, and he returned to documentary work only rarely afterwards.more about film
| director: | Jiří Menzel |
| producer: | Jan Černý (Artur Stacha) |
| script: | Jiří Menzel |
contact
Národní filmový archivTomáš Žůrek
Malešická 14 / Praha 3 / 130 00 / Czech Republic
+420 778 487 857
tomas.zurek@nfa.cz
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Film at festival
| festival edition: | 2015 |
| section: | Workshops |
| format: | Video File |
| language: | Czech |
| colour: | Black and white |
Info
| director: | Jiří Menzel |
| original title: | Domy z panelů |
| country: | Czechoslovakia |
| year: | 1959 |
| running time: | 6 min. |
