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Industrie - Factory for Capitalism

director: Ivo Bystřičan

original title: Industrie - Továrna na kapitalismus

country: Czech Republic

year: 2021

running time: 26 min.

synopsis

November 1989 brought democracy and faith in economic prosperity. Like other state-run enterprises, Tatra Kopřivnice was to be transferred into private hands. However, the company’s privatization has become one example of the naive reliance on market forces and on the honesty of the "heroes" of early capitalism. The initial euphoria was soon replaced by disillusionment.

biography

Ivo Bystřičan (1980) studied documentary film, social policy, and sociology. In films such as Permanent Address – Prague (2008), Copper Age (2010) and Byeway (2014), he contemplates the problems faced by the world today within the broader socio-political, economic and environmental context. Currently he works on the multidiscipinary Czech-Icelandic project Future Landscapes, feature documentary Climategeddon and docu-serie about crisis management in history with Czech Academy of Science.

more about film

director:	Ivo Bystřičan
producer:	Dušan Mulíček
script:	Ivo Bystřičan
photography:	Jiří Strnad
editing:	Adam Patyk

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