The Dangerous World of Calories

Jiří Vrožina / Czechoslovakia / 1974 / The film already had its Czech Premiere / 24 min.

synopsis

While Michal Tučný sings about food and love, endocrinologist Rajko Doleček from the Regional Hospital in Ostrava calculates that disability pensions related to obesity cost as much as the Danube-Oder-Elbe canal or three hundred thousand cars. The final part of this ten-part television counselling series converts human life into numbers and evaluates people as a social product.

biography

Jiří Vrožina (1938–1993) was a director, cameraman, and screenwriter. From the 1950s to the 1980s, he shot travelogues and educational documentaries for Czechoslovak Television Ostrava. In 1981, he emigrated to Australia. Examples of his films include Sám přes Atlantik (Alone Across the Atlantic, 1972) and the series Tisíciletá medicína (Thousand-Year-Old Medicine, 1978).