Lecture: On the archetype of apocalypse in the Czechoslovak cinema in the 1980s

Toward the end of the state-run socialism era, Eastern bloc citizens were being supplied with film and TV images of the decline of civilization and crumbling ecosystems. Today’s “environmental sorrow” thus already had its predecessor back then. Apart from issues like air, soil and water pollution (e.g. in Jan Svěrák’s student film Oil Gobblers), a threat of nuclear conflict raised by the Chernobyl disaster was very alive at the time. The lecture by Kamil Fila will focus on well-known and unfamiliar, eloquent and intensive, but also totally weird examples of fears representative of this period.