28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
The Smell of Petrol
director: Jiří Papoušek
original title: Vůně benzinu
country: Czechoslovakia
year: 1963
running time: 17 min.
synopsis
Gasoline is like morphine and gas station attendants are like drug dealers. A colourfully intrusive hidden camera provides a picture of a road-tripping nation. Desire drives motorists onto the road, only to have a jovial employee pump the smell of distance and freedom into their metal guts.biography
Jiří Papoušek (1920 - 1996) was a Czech film director, editor and documentary filmmaker, who studied at a graphic design school, but from 1945 onwards was introduced to many film professions. From 1949 he made documentary films of various themes. He has shot a variety of genres, from reporting on the Vienna Youth Festival, documenting the Spartakiads of 1960 and 1965, to films from countries such as Cuba and the USSR. In his later years, he devoted himself primarily to sports documentaries.more about film
| director: | Jiří Papoušek |
