28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
The Great Sadness
director: Pavel Štingl
original title: Velký smutek
country: Czech Republic
year: 2023
running time: 52 min.
synopsis
1953 was a year of great sadness for Czechoslovak citizens. Obligatory mourning intervened in their lives after the deaths of Stalin and Gottwald. Their grief was sincere because of the currency reform, which ruined their lifelong savings. In retrospect, 1953 was the height of social despair.biography
Pavel Štingl graduated from the Department of Documentary Filmmaking at FAMU. In the early 1990s he started a long series of large political documentaries from the former socialist bloc countries, which were awarded at many festivals. In 1995 he founded his own production company K2, where he produced several documentary series and a number of large-scale co-productions.more about film
| director: | Pavel Štingl |
| producer: | Radomír Šofr |
| script: | Pavel Štingl |
| photography: | Miroslav Janek |
| editing: | Kristýna Toupalová |
| sound: | Vladimír Chrastil |
