Troubles with Culture

Petr Schulhoff / Czechoslovakia / 1962 / The film already had its Czech Premiere / 11 min.

synopsis

Visiting the company cafeteria is like going through the nine circles of Dante’s Inferno. At least that’s how Valoušek, editor of Kulturní noviny, sees it when he unwittingly becomes the protagonist of a social experiment at the local company cafeteria, where everything happens the opposite of how it should. This humorous satire about the conflict between reality and ideals highlights the pitfalls of the journalism profession, and the fact that culture is created not by institutions, but by people.

biography

Petr Schulhoff (1922–1986) was born in Berlin and died in Prague. Before World War II, he worked as an actor, and after the war he began as an assistant director at Barrandov Studios. He then worked for the Documentary Film Studio in Prague, for which he shot satirical, instructional, and advertising films. From the 1960s onwards, he devoted himself to feature, detective, and comedy films.