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Is Everyone Right? Karel Floss and the Others.

director: Helena Všetečková

original title: Všichni mají pravdu? Karel Floss a ti druzí.

country: Czech Republic

year: 2015

running time: 124 min.

synopsis

A multi-portrait of the history of post-1989 Czech ideas and sensibilities, centered around left-wing Christian philosopher Karel Floss. Circling his ideas on God, truth, and politics like satellites are statements by strongly antithetical individuals including Milan Knížák, Ondřej Slačálek, Noam Chomsky, and Czech nationalist thinkers. Working with a subtle sense of irony, the film is openly inspired by the style of Karel Vachek as it makes use of semantic counterpoints, situational humor and aloof formal elements. The result is a kind of audiovisual riverbed for channeling the fury of a nation that recalls a child that is just learning to think and does not know what to relate to first, because in a certain sense, basically “everyone is right”.

DETAIL:
“That means that truth unifies, but it unifies without asking us to give up on differences. And so we fling ourselves into the trap of dogmatism – any position is dogmatic if it claims that if there exist truths, then these truths will not accept any differences.”

biography

Helena Všetečková is completing her studies of documentary film at FAMU. She is the author of the feature-length documentaries Rula, Ticho, Čumba Ladislav, Doc. Karel Floss and other Heroes of our Protests in 2007 (2007) and Hauser and Žižek: Theorists of Postmarxistic Philosophy (2008, shown at the Jihlava IDFF). She regularly collaborates with Helena Papírníková-Horáčkova together with whom she places herself into the “naïve branch of Czech documentary filmmaking.”

more about film

director:	Helena Všetečková
producer:	Jakub Wagner
photography:	Helena Všetečková, Jan Březina, Vojtěch Votýpka, Urban Arsenjuk, Helena Papírníková
sound:	Helena Papírníková

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