Talks About Infants II. Substitutes for Natural Nutrition

Radúz Činčera / Czechoslovakia / 1980 / The film already had its Czech Premiere / 17 min.

synopsis

Dagmar Veškrnová (now Havlová), Pavel Bobek, Jana Švandová, and Eliška Balcerová, with the help of pediatrician Hana Reinšteinová, share their parenting experiences with preparing formula and feeding children under one year of age. Činčera’s civil documentary does not take a patronizing or condescending tone toward viewers, but treats them as equal partners, with whom he shares his own insights in a friendly manner.

biography

Radúz Činčera (1923–1999) studied aesthetics and theatre studies at Charles University, worked as a screenwriter, dramaturg, and director. He shot around sixty documentaries for Krátký film Praha. He was the co-author of the interactive programme, Kinoautomat. In 2018, the Ji.hlava IDFF screened his films Romeo a Julie 63 (Romeo and Juliet 63, 1964) and Mlha (The Fog, 1966), and in 2023 his films Paridův soud (The Judgment of Paris, 1962), Čtyřikrát o jednom (Four Times and Again, 1963), and Národnost dětská (Citizenship: Child, 1965).