29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Mud-covered City
Mud-covered City

Mud-covered City

Václav Táborský / Czechoslovakia / 1963 / 9 min.


synopsis

A somewhat ironic documentary study focusing on the ambivalence of new neighborhoods. The filmmaker focuses on poorly-planned new buildings: enthusiastic young families with children move into their new home, but the area around the panel apartment blocks is one huge mud puddle, forcing mothers with prams and forlorn children to traverse it.

biography

Václav Táborský (1928) emigrated in 1968 to Canada, where he founded the first film school focusing on filmmaking practices. In his work, he addresses primarily contemporary social issues.

more about film

director: Václav Táborský
script: Václav Táborský
photography: Eduard Sigrot
editing: Josef Pejsar
music: Ferdinand Havlík

contact

NFA / Tomáš Žůrek / Malešická 14 / 13000 / Prague / Czech Republic / +420 778 487 857 / tomas.zurek@nfa.cz / www.nfa.cz

Film at festival

festival edition:2018
section:Cinéma vérité in the 1960s Czechoslovak doc. cinema
format:DCP
language:Czech
colour:Black and white

Info

director:Václav Táborský
original title:Zablácené město
country:Czechoslovakia
year:1963
running time:9 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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