Prefabricated Houses

A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolizing the obsolete past, alternate with shots of construction sites for new prefabricated apartment buildings. In spite of certain unavoidable propagandistic overtones added by the director, it is notable as the beginning of his search for a “dramaturgy of colors.”

Country:

Czechoslovakia

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

6 minutes

Year:

1960

Director:

Jiří Menzel

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Company:

FAMU

Cast:

Narrator (voice)

Crew:

Director

Music

Editor

Director of Photography

Screenplay